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  • Mandarin immersion in Louisiana

    Lafayette, Louisiana’s World Languages Academy, at Alice Coucher Elementary school, added Mandarin this year. There are 14 students in the first Mandarin Kindergarten class.   Here’s an AP article about the program… Apple for teacher is manzana, pomme or ping guo LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — In some classrooms at Alice Boucher Elementary, students who bring their favorite…

  • Bridge Cup deadline: Feb. 12

    旧金山州立大学孔子学院与旧金山联合校区主办 中国国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室与中国驻旧金山领事馆教育组赞助 The Bridge Cup is a multi-event competition for Kindergarten through 12th graders covering a variety of Chinese classical arts… calligraphy with a brush calligraphy with a pen painting/drawing Chinese essay writing Poetry recitation Such competitions have a long and honored history in Chinese education, and in Chinese schools in the United States. The…

  • Mandarin immersion in British Columbia

    Here’s some interesting background on Mandarin immersion programs in British Columbia. Vancouver (arguably the most beautiful city in North America, but I digress…) is about 17% Chinese. But it’s only now getting a Mandarin immersion program in its public schools, along with suburbs Coquitlam (see previous article) and Burnaby. Interestingly, Vancouver and Burnaby are contemplating…

  • British Columbia town gets Mandarin immersion program

    Coquitlam (ko-kwheet-lum for those not from the area) is a town slightly southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. The greater Vancouver area has an fairly high Chinese population, about 17%. In the 2001 census, 15% of the population spoke a Chinese dialect. The town is also home to British Columbia’s only French-speaking neighborhood, Maillardville.…

  • CAIS Summer Program

    CAIS will be offering summer camps again in 2010.  There will be two separate programs, one for pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten students and the other for first grade through 8th grade students. This year’s summer programs will be offered in two, four-week sessions. Session One will be held June 21-July 16.  Independence Day will be observed on Monday, July…

  • Deadline to get a free Chinese teacher – Feb. 12

    The Teachers of Critical Languages Program, a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is designed to expand schools’ abilities to teach Chinese and Arabic, placing experienced EFL teachers from China and Egypt in American K-12 schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and…

  • Switching schools, switching states?

    One concern many parents have when starting their child in Mandarin immersion is that they’ll never be able to leave their town, much less their school, without giving up Mandarin. But with  literally dozens of Mandarin immersion programs opening up around the country these days, that’s less a problem than it used to be. In…