Author: Elizabeth Weise

August 2016 opening planned for Mandarin Chinese Language school By Annette Baird |  December 22, 2014 Photo By Mandarin Chinese Language Immers This is an architect’s rendering of the common area of the Chinese Mandarin Language Immersion School under construction in the Galleria area. This is an architect’s rendering of the common area of the Chinese Mandarin…

Calling families from the San Francisco Bay Area! 位育國際學校Wei Yu International Charter School is a K-8 Mandarin immersion public tuition-free charter school that is currently petitioning for approval to open grades K and 1st in Fall 2015 in West San Jose. The Wei Yu petition was denied at the district level a few weeks ago.…

Dyslexia has a language barrier Readers of Chinese use different parts of the brain from readers of English, write Brian Butterworth and Joey Tang Alan’s parents are English, but he was born and grew up in Japan. He would pass as a native speaker of either language. What brought Alan to the notice of Taeko…

Brain response to a ‘lost’ first language 3-D rendered view of fMRI activation patterns for processing Chinese tones showing the unique pattern for the monolingual French group, and similarities in the patterns of activation for both the Chinese-French bilingual and the International …more An infant’s mother tongue creates neural patterns that the unconscious brain retains years…

Mandarin’s moment Updated: 2014-11-28 11:48 By William Hennelly(China Daily USA)   Zhang Shanshan teaches Kalen McBrien, 5, basic Mandarin vocabulary about colors and fruits at the Hudson Way Immersion School. Photos by Lu Huiquan / For China Daily Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg addressed a Beijing audience in Mandarin last month. He has been studying a language spoken…

A Portuguese Town Is Making Mandarin Mandatory For Eight-Year-Olds To Gain A Foothold In China © AFP Patricia de Melo MoreiraThe small industrial town of Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal’s shoe capital which specialises in luxury models, has now made Mandarin compulsory for its 8- and 9-year-olds Lisbon (AFP) – Five hundred years after the…

Redwood City, Calif. is launching a Mandarin immersion school next year. They’ve got a nice blog up talking about why it’s a good thing for the school, the families and the district.  Worth taking a look at it if you’re trying to sell your program. MIIRWC –  Mandarin Immersion in Redwood City, serving Redwood City…