Speaking more than one language may help delay dementia Kim Painter, Special for USA TODAY4:02 p.m. EST November 6, 2013 Speaking more than one language “stimulates your brain all the time,” researcher says. (Photo: Photo Disc) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Dementia developed an average of five years later in people who spoke more than one language The…

Meet the Australian children fluent in Mandarin By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Melbourne Five-year-old Jackie Baldwin can give her name in Mandarin Continue reading the main story Related Stories Young Asians making their mark on Australia Australia unveils Asia manifesto Australia’s politicians often talk about the importance of building ties with Asia. Successive governments have promised…

Casper school seeks to make students bilingual   By WILLOW BELDEN Enlarge image Credit Willow Belden Kindergarteners in the dual language immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School spend half their day learning in Chinese. A school in Casper has started teaching some of its classes in Chinese. The idea is that the students in those classes…

Global Village Academy’s tear-down frenzy: Global Village Academy’s tear-down frenzyWritten by Madeline Novey Rose Kensora, 6, left, dances with Taylor Griffith, 5, in their Chinese class at the Global Village Academy Wednesday. Global Village is a K-4 language-immersion charter school that opened this fall. The school, now housed at Dayspring Christian Church in southeast Fort…

This is from Judy Shei, whose son is in a Mandarin track school in Singapore and finished second grade in San Francisco’s Starr King Elementary Mandarin immersion program. === Just wanted to let you know that we just started tutoring with our son here in Singapore as he’s been struggling a bit in school and…

Former ambassador in China and 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman of Utah talks about the Chinese Immersion Program at Hilton Head Island Elementary School after visiting them. http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/10/04/2721203/2012-presidental-candidate-jon.html

Sharon Carstens’ daughter went through the Portland, Ore. Mandarin immersion program, so she’s seen up close and personal how these programs work and where they sometimes fall short. She also is a fluent Mandarin speaker herself. So like the professor she is, she set out to think “how would we do immersion if we could…