Author: Elizabeth Weise

Fremont Unified considers Mandarin-English immersion program By Linh Tat Oakland Tribune Posted: 05/04/2010 12:00:00 AM PDT FREMONT — Wei-Lin Tong remembers speaking only Cantonese at home during her early years, but as soon as her older brother went to kindergarten, the kids switched to speaking English full time. With two children of her own now, Tong…

5Q Channel is a Mandarin reading web site based in Taiwan that was created to use computer animation to put classic Chinese stories into a form that kids would want to watch, listen to and read, all in Mandarin. Funded in part by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education, it aims to give students all over…

This is coming out of the National Chinese Language Conference, happening this weekend in Washington D.C. Click here for the link. Journalists James Fallows of The Atlantic and John Pomfret of The Washington Post discuss the phenomenon that is China. Submit your questions!

Chinese Music & Arts 2010 Summer Day Camp (For children ages from 7 to 14) July 19 – August 27 Session I:   7/19~7/30 Chinese Classical Music & Fine Art Session II:  8/2~8/13 Chinese Folk Music & Chinese Painting Session III: 8/16~8/27 Chinese Pop Music & Sketching 2010 Chinese Arts and Music Summer Camp is organized…

Here’s a nice story in the Calgary Herald about families succeeding in maintaining their home languages. Here here! ===== If you speak a language besides English, should you teach it to your child from the womb on? For some Calgary families, the benefits of raising a child who can speak two, or even three, languages…

From the website Blue Oregon By Dave Porter of Portland, OR. Dave is a retired health administrator who advocates for Mandarin language education and study abroad programs in Oregon schools on his blog. Sometimes seemingly small decisions have big repercussions. Such is Portland Public Schools annual decision not to expand its Mandarin immersion program at…