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TIPS FOR TAKING YOUR MI KIDS TO CHINA By Kendall Goh                                                           Last updated 3 August 2011 INTRODUCTION 1 WHEN TO PLAN 2 WHY GO 2 FINDING A LANGUAGE PROGRAM 3 GUIDES, GROUPS OR GOING IT ALONE 5 VISAS 7 DOMESTIC TRAVEL:  FLIGHTS 8 DOMESTIC TRAVEL:  TRAINS 9 ACCOMMODATIONS 10 INTERNET, TELEPHONES AND POWER PLUGS 12…

Students Immerse Themselves in Chinese, With the Help of Visitors With the start of the school year only weeks away, students at Minnetonka Schools’ Excelsior Elementary will continue learning Mandarin Chinese. By Delane Cleveland View full size      PHOTOS (7) Although temperatures hovered around 100 degrees the last week of the 2010-2011 school year, the students…

Why It’s Smart to Be Bilingual The brain’s real super-food may be learning new languages. Aug 7, 2011 10:00 AM EDT On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York’s Hudson River, a group of 3-year-olds are rolling sticky rice balls in chocolate sprinkles, as a teacher guides them completely in Mandarin. This…

New Kindergarten Dual Language Program to begin on August 22, 2011 The Walnut Valley Unified School District is proud to offer a new Mandarin Dual Immersion program beginning on Monday, August 22, 2011. The Walnut Valley Unified School District is proud to offer a new Mandarin Dual Immersion program beginning on Monday, August 22, 2011.…

If you’ve got children in Mandarin immersion, you know finding things for them to read can be difficult. So far parents have located two good resources, Taiwan’s 5Q Channel and the U.S.-based ChildRoad.com. If you know more, please send them along. We’re constantly getting pitches for sites meant for English-speaking kids which teach them colors…

From CNA News Taipei, May 9 (CNA) India has asked Taiwan for 10,000 Mandarin teachers who could travel to the South Asian country to teach the language, Education Minister Wu Ching-ji said Monday. India has recently decided to allow its high schools to offer classes in second languages, including Chinese, and has expressed the hope…

From Patch.com “Schools such as the proposed Mandarin immersion charters will give our children a foundation for an understanding and appreciation of cultures outside our own. My generation grew up in a relatively insular society. Little emphasis was placed on knowing another culture. Learning a language was offered as an elective for those who cared…