Chinese taught in MA
Maybe some day Meiguo Waiguo ren can also be Zhongguo ren, eh:
At the Driscoll public schools in Brookline, Mass., the kindergartners already know more Chinese than most Americans will learn in a lifetime. The second graders can string sentences together, and the eighth graders are nearly fluent. In this school system, learning Mandarin is mandatory.
Read more ABC News… or over at Idiosyncrasies.
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God I wish my parents had put me into something like this (with any language, really) when I was a kid. I don’t know if things like this even existed in the early-to-mid 80s. Starting to learn Chinese at 23 was a lot harder than I imagine starting to learn it at 5 would have been…
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I went through the Brookline public school system and studied Chinese for all four years of high school (it was just being phased into the elementary schools during the time I was there). Now I’m taking Chinese 412 at Cornell. It’s a good idea, but I think that it’s a rather far-fetched claim to say that the students are fluent. Replace “Chinese” with some other language and imagine the students being fluent. You’ll see what I mean. At any rate, time will tell and at least the students will be more aware of a country which is almost certain to continue to grow.