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  • St. Louis Mandarin immersion 很好!

    Language immersion schools make strides in St. Louis area Huy Mach First graders Alison Smith (from left), Darius Williams, Aynalie Joy and Pleasure Stovall sing and dance to the name of the months in Chinese on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, at the Language Immersion School in St. Louis. Photo by Huy Mach, hmach@post-dispatch.com October 08,…

  • Houston’s first Mandarin immersion program going strong

    by Mia Gradney/ KHOU 11 News Posted on October 23, 2012 at 5:11 PM HOUSTON—HISD wants voters to approve a $1.9 billion bond issue to rebuild and renovate schools.　 One of the schools that stands to benefit is an old campus in Bellaire that has a very new and foreign concept. Children of all backgrounds…

  • You know you’re a Mandarin immersion parent* when….

    This list comes from things people have told me or emailed me of late, which I’ve turned into this format because I realized I burst out laughing when one mom told me the “fuxi for my kaoshi” line because I knew exactly what she meant. These are clearly all from non-Chinese speaking parents, and mostly…

  • Making the case for a Mandarin immersion program

    This video has been out for three years, but I just ran across it and thought it might be useful for schools contemplating adding Mandarin immersion programs. There’s a host of material out on the topic, but this seems to include a piece designed for showing to skeptical school boards and worried parents. Ordering information…

  • Opportunities for teachers, schools and students

    From this month’s Asia Society newsletter 2013 STARTALK programs: The online RFP has been posted for programs for students and teachers in one of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. Deadline: October 31.  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) invites submissions for the Franklin R. Buchanan Prize awarded annually…

  • Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature-prize

    BEIJING (AP) — Novelist Mo Yan, this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it. Mo, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, is the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of the authoritarian…

  • Singapore’s Mandarin education program

    By Elizabeth Weise When talking about Mandarin education, Singapore makes for an interesting study. While the nation’s schools are all taught in English, about three-quarters of all students must become fluent in Mandarin in order to graduate. I recently spoke with Dr. Chin CheeKuen, who is executive director of the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language…