Does it Matter if Jon Huntsman is ‘Fluent’ in Mandarin Chinese? November 2nd, 2011 by Chris Livaccari 3 inShare enlarge image Jon Huntsman (Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China — and current Republican candidate for president — is at the center of a discussion that reveals our assumptions about language…

Coming full circle on bilingualism After rejecting her parents’ native Mandarin as a youngster, she’s come to value the connection to her roots. And she’s finding plenty of company among other young Asian Americans. Children and adults listen to the reading of “The Giant Glowing Dragon” during the Mandarin story hour at the Crowell Public…

Educators discuss the Chinese immersion program. Kindergarteners go global Chinese immersion program at McIlvaine Early Childhood Center 10:19 a.m., March 15, 2013–The world is getting smaller for five year olds in Delaware’s Caesar Rodney School District. Students in other countries often learn world languages beginning in the early years. In order to prepare the state’s…

Agence France-Presse March 16, 2013 00:45 Chinese teaching growing in US, helped by Beijing Susan Wang couldn’t speak English when she arrived in California from Taiwan, aged 16. Now 49, she heads a school offering US children a similar experience, plunging them into a Chinese world. And her establishment is part of a rapid expansion…

Here’s the family’s blog. Not only is our 10 year old daughter the only American at her new Mandarin school but also the youngest, smallest, and only Caucasian at this five star high school with 1000 students! Last week was her first day. This is the Mandarin-speaking introduction that she prepared for her class and…

Bamboo Shoots is a private Mandarin immersion preschool in Westfield, NJ which is expanding into an elementary school beginning next year, 2013-2014. ======= 欢迎您，朋友。, or “welcome friends” as many of us are more accustomed to, is the warm greeting students receive each morning at Bamboo Shoots. In fact, this independent, full Mandarin immersion, day school…

Parents in Utah have started the Utah Mandarin Immersion Parents Council to support teachers, families and students across the entire state’s Mandarin immersion program, the nation’s largest. They’ve got a nice blog going, be sure to check it out. Families in other school district have also started groups, there’s a Fremont Mandarin Immersion Parents Council…