Dyslexia has a language barrier Readers of Chinese use different parts of the brain from readers of English, write Brian Butterworth and Joey Tang Alan’s parents are English, but he was born and grew up in Japan. He would pass as a native speaker of either language. What brought Alan to the notice of Taeko…

Brain response to a ‘lost’ first language 3-D rendered view of fMRI activation patterns for processing Chinese tones showing the unique pattern for the monolingual French group, and similarities in the patterns of activation for both the Chinese-French bilingual and the International …more An infant’s mother tongue creates neural patterns that the unconscious brain retains years…

Mandarin’s moment Updated: 2014-11-28 11:48 By William Hennelly(China Daily USA)   Zhang Shanshan teaches Kalen McBrien, 5, basic Mandarin vocabulary about colors and fruits at the Hudson Way Immersion School. Photos by Lu Huiquan / For China Daily Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg addressed a Beijing audience in Mandarin last month. He has been studying a language spoken…

A Portuguese Town Is Making Mandarin Mandatory For Eight-Year-Olds To Gain A Foothold In China © AFP Patricia de Melo MoreiraThe small industrial town of Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal’s shoe capital which specialises in luxury models, has now made Mandarin compulsory for its 8- and 9-year-olds Lisbon (AFP) – Five hundred years after the…

Redwood City, Calif. is launching a Mandarin immersion school next year. They’ve got a nice blog up talking about why it’s a good thing for the school, the families and the district.  Worth taking a look at it if you’re trying to sell your program. MIIRWC –  Mandarin Immersion in Redwood City, serving Redwood City…

Mandarin programs growing: Redwood City Elementary School District latest to add immersion course offerings November 24, 2014, 05:00 AM By Angela Swartz Daily Journal Community demand, along with the fact that more than a billion people in the world speak Chinese, has been the impetus for more language programs in its predominant dialect Mandarin in Peninsula schools.…

Year two of Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program begins in Naselle By NICK NIKKILA Observer correspondent Published:November 4, 2014 4:46PM Chen Sha Naselle school welcomes new Chinese teachers NASELLE — A Mandarin Chinese immersion program successfully launched at Naselle-Grays River School District for kindergarten and first grade students last year is expanding to include second grade.…