Marin county, just north from San Francisco across the Golden Gate bridge, doesn’t have any Mandarin immersion programs. That’s surprising, given that there are more more than a dozen in the greater San Francisco bay area. Clearly some parents would like that to change, and one Mandarin-speaker is suggesting they turn to charter schools to get on…

The Sunflower State is getting its first Mandarin immersion program. The Blue Valley School District, one of districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area, is opening an entirely new, whole-school Mandarin immersion program in the Fall of 2017. The school, for now known only known as Elementary 23, will be home to a Kindergarten through fifth…

This thoughtful take on the President’s immigration executive order comes from the head of the Chinese American International School, the nation’s oldest Chinese immersion school, based in San Francisco. Too few programs teach about the history of Chinese-Americans in the United States and the terrible racism and bigotry that the community was subject to, especially the heinous Chinese…

Wishing everyone a happy Year of the Rooster. 快乐的一年的公鸡

The folks at CARLA, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition in Minnesota have made a great video to show how it works and why it’s important.

For anyone with kids in Mandarin immersion, here’s a look at what a well-planned K-12 program can look like. What happens with immersion in high school (in Utah)? Some people have expressed confusion about what happens to dual language immersion students when they get to high school. There have been some very exciting developments over the past…

Zhou Youguang, Who Made Writing Chinese as Simple as ABC, Dies at 111 New York Times By MARGALIT FOX JAN. 14, 2017 Zhou Youguang, known as the father of Pinyin for creating the system of Romanized Chinese writing that has become the international standard since its introduction some 60 years ago, died on Saturday in Beijing,…