Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids DEC. 26, 2014 Photo CreditAndré Letria  Personal Journeys By  DANIELLE PERGAMENT It was summer in Tuscany. The rolling hills were adorned with their famous haystacks. The cypress trees were majestically verdant against the golden backdrop. We were in the picturesque Renaissance town Pienza, its spire shooting up into a cloudless…

The American dad writing in the blog post link below used to live in China and now lives in Chicago. He’s surprised at how much time, attention and money goes into kids’ sports here. An intriguing point of view. Though American parents might say that sports are in addition to the 6 hours a day kids spend in…

August 2016 opening planned for Mandarin Chinese Language school By Annette Baird |  December 22, 2014 Photo By Mandarin Chinese Language Immers This is an architect’s rendering of the common area of the Chinese Mandarin Language Immersion School under construction in the Galleria area. This is an architect’s rendering of the common area of the Chinese Mandarin…

Calling families from the San Francisco Bay Area! 位育國際學校Wei Yu International Charter School is a K-8 Mandarin immersion public tuition-free charter school that is currently petitioning for approval to open grades K and 1st in Fall 2015 in West San Jose. The Wei Yu petition was denied at the district level a few weeks ago.…

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…