It looks like they send their students to live for a year in Hangzhou. Now, that’s immersion!     http://www.cis.edu.hk/community/phoenix-soaring鳳凰展翅/index.aspx

Check out this great site where your kids can learn 放开手, Let It Go in Chinese. For those of us who are being subjected to endless renditions of it at home, make them sing it in Mandarin! The version sung in 25 different language is also very cool and worth watching. Here’s the video  …

This is one of the biggest Chinese language education conferences in the nation. Pricey but parents in the LA area with a great interest in immersion might consider attending. Or you might notice there are hordes of busses descending on your child’s school. No worries, it’s just NCLC attendees visiting local immersion programs. If anyone does…

Destination: Immersion (sturti/istockphoto) By Heather Clydesdale As recognition of language immersion’s wide-ranging benefits increase, and schools across the United States establish new programs, many are finding that the journey is rewarding, but also has hurdles. At the 2013 National Chinese Language Conference, Shuhan Wang, Ph.D, president of ELE Consulting International, assembled a team of administrators…

Just got this from the designer. Comments welcome. Beth

If you’re in a new Mandarin immersion program, just be aware that there are a lot of weddings and baby showers in your future. New programs mean new teachers. And new teachers do what lots of folks do when they finally settle into a good, solid job with a future–they start to look towards their own future.…

The Longest ‘Ia  Story by Ronald Williams, Jr.Photos by Elyse Butler and Matt Mallams   It’s a tough day for practice. Even with the usual tradewinds that breeze across this campus high in Palolo Valley, it’s hot. The sparse patches of green on a field trampled by heavy feet seem to long for rain. Jerseys…