Author: Elizabeth Weise

A nice example of a Mandarin parent group helping get the word out about their program. This group is in Orange County, Calif.

Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School HOUSTON DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOLS & ASIA SOCIETY by Bernadette Verzosa On a rainy winter evening, the end of a bustling school day, some parents gathered at Kim Harrington’s cozy cottage in West University Place. They were members of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at the Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion…

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Here’s one family’s story.

  Our friends at Parents of African Americans Students Studying Chinese (PAASSC) have these great posters for sale. Check their newsletter out here. Here’s their website. They go on sale Feb. 24.

February 11, 2014 3:19 pm  •  By Jamar Younger   Mesquite Elementary School will host an information session for its Mandarin Chinese immersion program. The session will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the school, 9455 E. Rita Road. The program is open to all interested parents who have a child in kindergarten or first grade, even…

A wonderful video of kids who speak lots of languages proudly telling the world they speak English and another language–and they’re American! It was made after a flap over the multilingual Coke ad that aired during the SuperBowl, which featured kids singing America the Beautiful in multiple languages. This video was made by Stephanie Meade,…

  CHINESE IMMERSION IN NASELLE Mandarin makes its mark Chinese Immersion Damian Mulinix Naselle School kindergarteners go over Mandarin characters on a worksheet as part of a Chinese immersion class. Damian Mulinix First-graders names are spelled out in Mandarin above their backpacks in a Chinese immersion class at Naselle School. Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:00 pm By KATIE WILSON…