The nice folks at 5Q Channel in Taiwan have once again agreed to give U.S. parents a special rate on their great website. 5Q Channel is a Chinese listening and reading site that features animated stories in Mandarin with both pinyin, traditional and simplified characters. The stories are fun, the animation is good and because…

Developing Literacy in Chinese, Part 2: Supporting Chinese Literacy in the Home Environment By Lelan Miller 孟乐岚, founder of Mandarin Matters in Our Schools in Texas (MMOST) and master’s candidate in Chinese Language Pedagogy This article is the second in a three part series about developing literacy in the Chinese language. While written primarily for non-Chinese…

Parents push for Mandarin immersion program Menlo Park City School District already offers popular Spanish immersion classes by Renee Batti Almanac Staff With China on a path to becoming the largest economy in the world, the interest in teaching children in the United States the Mandarin language is also growing apace. And given the climate of…

“Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!” This is my new favorite quote. It’s from Gregg Roberts, World Languages and Dual Immersion Specialist, Utah State Office of Education. He was speaking at this year’s Asia Society Chinese Language Conference in Boston in April. The panel was on “Equity and Access in Chinese Language Education.” You…

French immersion enrolment skyrockets as a new linguistic category emerges JOE FRIESEN DEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jan. 28 2013, 9:05 PM EST Last updated Monday, Feb. 25 2013, 12:42 PM EST Andrea Kavanagh is a child of French immersion’s first wave. Born in the heart of English-speaking Winnipeg in 1971, she was just 10…

Bilingual Buds Immersion School in Summit hosts Chinese delegation of school leaders By Independent Press  on May 24, 2013 at 10:30 AM, updated May 24, 2013 at 10:33 AM Twenty-one elementary school principals and university professors from Shanghai, China, visit Bilingual Buds Immersion School in Summit recently. Jasmine Volmar SUMMIT — “I could not have imagined a more…