Guy Emanuele Elementary School in Union City, California has launched a Mandarin immersion program. It began in the fall of 2020. The program will use simplified characters and begin at 80 of the school day in Mandarin, 20% in English. That will gradually decline to 50/50% by 5th grade. Launching fall of 2021. Union City…

The lovely folks at Imagin8 Press have come out with a raft of new books in easy-to-read Chinese. These include some very easy books like Twenty Three Cats (二十三只猫) which has only 100 characters in it. There’s also the story of Mulan, Woman Warrior in simplified Chinese using only a 240 word vocabulary. The books…

A fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal from January, for those who have subscriptions. Here’s the link. For those that don’t, some highlights: As the relationship between the U.S. and China has grown more tense, the number of U.S. students studying there had declined by one-fifth since a peak in 2011-2012. The number studying…

In general, Mandarin immersion programs do better when they’re in a whole school environment rather than a strand within a school. That said, the Woodstock Elementary Mandarin immersion program is one of the oldest and most popular in the country and families have been moving to the Portland neighborhood for decades to take part, so…

So what happens when immersion kids get to college? Here’s one pathway that’s worth knowing about. The Language Flagship is a public/private program that is an initiative of the National Security Education Program, whose mission is “to develop a pipeline of foreign language and culture expertise for the U.S. federal government workforce.” The focus has…

Centner Academy in Miami has been much in the news of late after reports surfaced that the private school refused to hire anyone who had gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, with the school’s owner falsely claiming being around vaccinated adults might harm children. That’s quite simply untrue. Unfortunately, a previous version of the Mandarin immersion school…

from The Daily News BATESVILLE – The Batesville Community School Corporation (BCSC) is pleased to announce it has been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association (IFLTA) Wide World Award for Distinguished Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program, according to BCSC Assistant Superintendent Melissa Burton. “Our Mandarin dual immersion program is…