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…

Korean Dual Language Immersion Program Recruiting Kindergarteners, First Graders, and Second Graders for FALL 2013 Free, public Korean dual language immersion program for kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders starting Fall 2013. Learn more at one of our information sessions. See the information below. What: Korean Dual Language Information Session When: (pick one) Monday, June 10 at…

The nice folks at 5Q Channel in Taiwan have once again agreed to give U.S. parents a special rate on their great website. 5Q Channel is a Chinese listening and reading site that features animated stories in Mandarin with both pinyin, traditional and simplified characters. The stories are fun, the animation is good and because…