Duval County Public Schools' first Chinese immersion program is scheduled to open this fall at an existing charter school that focuses on foreign languages. Global Outreach Charter School, a K-8 ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Schools in Belmont Cragin, Lake View, Little Village, Pullman, Edgewater and the East Side are adding language programs aimed at helping students become bilingual.

Students in two kindergarten classes at Starr King Elementary are the first in San Francisco's public schools to learn Mandarin, the national language of China. School district officials hope it will ...

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Mandarin Chinese is a famously difficult language for native English speakers to learn as adults. As with any language, experts say it's best if you start young. In small pockets across South Carolina ...

Families in Lafayette Parish have a new option for language immersion in the fall. The World Languages Academy, a satellite pod of Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, will welcome kindergarten and ...

Ivie Hunt was barely 6 last spring and had just finished kindergarten when she shocked the hostess at a Denver Asian restaurant by chatting comfortably in Mandarin Chinese. “Here was this little blond ...

Glenwood Elementary is a school divided as it awaits its fate, where some students in the Mandarin dual-language program have been bullied, parents and teachers told the school board Thursday night.

A Mandarin-speaking Malay mother and daughter believe learning more languages helps to promote unity and multiculturalism.