Though as long-time China correspondent for NPR Anthony Kuhn notes in this story, he’s being studying and working in China for almost two decades. It’s worth clicking to see the clip of him asking his question in Chinese – and then reading about how the mere fact that a foreigner is fluent made him an…

Which job seekers are in hot demand? Bilingual workers. DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF Multilingual medical assistant Kaissa Oulhadj worked at work at Boston Medical Center. By Katie Johnston GLOBE STAFF  MARCH 13, 2017 Help wanted: people who can speak more than one language. Even as the Trump administration seeks to limit immigration, employers are increasingly looking to woo…

Is 2014 a group of parents attempted to create the United Kingdom’s first Mandarin immersion program. To be called the Marco Polo school, it was to launch in 2014 as a “free school,” the English equivalent of a charter school in the United States. The authority that oversees such schools eventually decided it wasn’t inclusive enough, scrapping…

Nathan Yeung, a computer scientist and web developer, has update his most excellent program for finding where on a map the closest Mandarin immersion programs are. You can now go to MandarinTreehouse.com and type in a ZIP code and get a nice map showing you all the Mandarin immersion programs within a radius of between…

West Contra Costa Unified, a school district, based in Richmond, Calif. (just north of Berkeley) will be opening a whole-school Mandarin immersion school in the fall of 2017. The school will have a whopping 72 seats for Mandarin immersion, three full Kindergarten classes! But don’t just take my word for it. See their great press…

Marin county, just north from San Francisco across the Golden Gate bridge, doesn’t have any Mandarin immersion programs. That’s surprising, given that there are more more than a dozen in the greater San Francisco bay area. Clearly some parents would like that to change, and one Mandarin-speaker is suggesting they turn to charter schools to get on…