From: WFAE | By Ann Doss Helms Published April 13, 2022 at 5:44 AM EDT Inside a newly-renovated building in a Pineville shopping center, you’ll hear young children learning in Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and English. ILIM School, short for the International Language Immersion Montessori School, offers a new twist on a growing educational option. Language immersion means…

It’s a little off-topic, but interesting that Stanford has dropped Cantonese, spoken by 70 million people in China. It’s also closer to classical Chinese, T’ang dynasty poems that don’t rhyme in Mandarin do rhyme in Cantonese, for example. Los Angeles Times April 17, 2022 BY ANH DO STAFF WRITER  APRIL 17, 2022 5:30 AM PT Laura Ng…

Fox Carolina By Brookley Cromer Published: Mar. 22, 2022 at 4:25 PM PDT GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – Is your child interested in learning a second language? A Greenville charter school is offering something that’s rare in South Carolina and enrollment is open for next year. Speaking a second language is second nature for students at East…

LAist, by Josie Huang, June 6, 2022 Chinese and Vietnamese are, after Spanish, the most commonly spoken non-English languages in California, but they’re rarely taught in public schools because there’s not enough teachers to do the job. The state issued nearly 1,200 bilingual accreditations in the 2020-2021 school year, but only 63 were for Mandarin…

Some highlights: Delaware now offers Chinese immersion in 13 schools to 1,300 students. In the Mandarin program, students take the AP exam in 9th grade and then can take college-level Chinese classes in high school, allowing them to graduate one course short of a Chinese minor. Of the 100 students who began in the first…

A Whole Site Modernization project is underway for Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School at 2445 Fogg St. The school offers a Mandarin Chinese immersion program giving students from K-5 instruction in core academics in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The cost of Whole Site Modernization is projected to exceed $15 million with an anticipated construction…

Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind BY GLENN C. ALTSCHULER AND DAVID WIPPMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS 05/15/22 8:30 In a multilingual world, the United States remains a mostly monolingual country. Even though roughly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, almost 80 percent speak English only. In Europe,…