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On October 18, the Los Angeles Times ran a story about the disagreement over whether educators should use traditional or simplified characters when teaching Chinese in American schools. The answer varies even within the San Francisco Unified School District; Jose Ortega and Starr King use simplified characters while Alice Fong Yu, West Portal, and the…
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The next meeting of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council will be on Monday, Nov. 2nd at Starr King from 5:30 – 7:30pm. We’ll cover: How to Use A Chinese Dictionary (please bring the one your child’s teacher should have given you) Chinese 101 – A quick, parent-led romp through the basics of Chinese grammar and…
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From The New York Times By Kirk Semple He grew up playing in the narrow, crowded streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown. He has lived and worked there for all his 61 years. But as Wee Wong walks the neighborhood these days, he cannot understand half the Chinese conversations he hears. Paul Lee, a longtime resident of…
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San Francisco public schools “New Rule” #3… “Our children need to speak the language or languages of the 21st Century” So says Margaret Peterson as she and Beth Weise talk about multilingual education in this KALW public service announcement… Learn more about how you can support San Francisco’s future at yoursfpublicschools.org.
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From a great article on the ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ phenomenon by Dan Vergano at www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-10-18-tip-tongue_N.htm It’s mostly about bilingual sign language speakers, but he’s got a bit of interesting data on bilingual people: Pyers and other have shown that people who speak more than one language possess advantages that make a difference, beyond just fluency in another…
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http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-10/st_best In this month’s issue of Wired magazine, number six on the list of “The 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids” is * (“English used to be the dominant language. Crazy, huh?”) And a couple of years ago in a Wired feature article on the costs of raising a world-dominating child, the only…
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Dyslexia varies across language barriers Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. Those differences can be seen in the brain and in the performance of Chinese children on visual and oral language tasks, reveals a report published online on October…
