By Elizabeth Weise Germany’s first Mandarin immersion program is still struggling to get the German educational establishment to recognize Chinese as language in which academic studies can be taught. The school, which launched in the fall of 2011, has been forced to settle for offering a Chinese language class to its students three times a…

US-China summit: California welcomes rise of Asian giant   The run down Oakland waterfront has seen a $1.5bn investment from China Five-year-old Eli is perhaps the face of America’s future. He looks a little nervous going in front of his 15 fellow pupils in his kindergarten class in a San Francisco school and reading out…

Other Views: GF schools should ask for language immersion By: Grand Forks Herald, The Jamestown Sun Call up the “Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs,” click on Minnesota, and you’ll find a state that’s trying to make strides. From the Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion Program in Eden Prairie, Minn., to the Yinghua Academy charter school and…

New Drama Series Launched For Mandarin Learners June 15, 2013 Editor: Zhu Yanhong Change Text Size A A A Chinese publishing group teams up with Yale in $5.5m language venture China International Publishing Group and Yale University have launched what they claim is the world’s first drama series aimed at helping to teach Mandarin to beginners.  The two…

Note that you have to pay to log in to the Times of London site to read the article, but if there’s someone who’s quite interested in immersion in England it might be worth it. Beth Last night, I accidentally said to my mum, ‘Can you just arrêt?’”RICHARD POHLE/THE TIMES Helen Rumbelow Published at 12:01AM,…

Houston, where everything is big, even the Mandarin immersion schools By Elizabeth Weise To the rest of the country this might seem like an odd statement, but here goes. If you were going to design the best public Mandarin immersion school you possibly could, it would probably look a lot like the one that launched…

Mandarin in Montgomery County, Maryland By Elizabeth Weise The oldest public Mandarin immersion program in the country was founded in 1996 at Potomac Elementary, in the town of Potomac, Maryland. It’s one of seven immersion schools in the Montgomery County Public Schools. The district has a very long history of immersion. Its French Immersion Magnet…