Takeaways from a Presentation at the 2019 National Chinese Language Conference Editors Note: At the National Chinese Language Conference in San Diego, CA, five Chinese language instructors boldly presented their findings and recommendations on race, sex, and gender in the American Chinese language classroom. Following is a summary of the author’s takeaways. By Eleise Jones Every language has…

From: Valliant News Written by Robert Smith × November 20, 2019   On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese. Students sang a Chinese song about family as…

  From The Salt Lake Tribune, Nov. 23, 2019 It was difficult for Kristin Young to understand what her patients needed.   They spoke Chinese. Young didn’t. iPads and translation apps were only so helpful.   Even when Young, a nurse case manager at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George, successfully tended to her…

一， 二， 三， 四，五，六。。。 From the BBC By Anand Jagatia 22nd November 2019 Why you might be counting in the wrong language Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you…

Immersion in college From: The Washington Post Danilo Moreta, a graduate student raised in Colombia, leads a Spanish-language section of a plant science course at Cornell University. (Jon Reis/Hechinger Report) By Laura Pappano  November 19, 2019 ITHACA, N.Y. — Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down…

Board of Education honors Chinese language teachers for their service at deadly tour bus crash Written by Ryann Richardson October 9, 2019 From The St. George News ST. GEORGE — The Washington County School District Board of Education honored dozens of Chinese language teachers in a meeting Tuesday evening. District Chinese language teachers who volunteered their time…

I know, I know, I sound like a broken record. But really, reading (in any language) is truly the way to cement language. If you read a lot in English, your fundamental grasp of English grammar and style are cemented without memorizing rules that half the time don’t work. You don’t know why, but you…