Kelly Chuang, standing, teaches Mandarin to Crystal Huang at Chinese School of San Marino on April 1. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 teacher Janet Lin leads a class at the Westwood School. Thomas Cheatham had planned to study Latin during his sophomore year at Hebron High School. But when he learned that the ...

On the day Christopher Tirone turned 12, his classmates at Candlewood Middle School in Dix Hills sang him the Happy Birthday song in Chinese. Christopher and the other sixth-graders in his class in ...

In her second semester of Mandarin Chinese classes, Lupita Barrientos is learning the words for living room, kitchen and sofa, carefully repeating after her teacher, Ting Yang. But Barrientos and Yang ...

EAGLE, Colorado – A local high school is launching a Mandarin language program funded by the Chinese government, school district officials said. Battle Mountain High School joins 14 other Colorado ...

For teenager Cameron Persons, Chinese has character. "I love the characters," said Persons, 17, who enrolled in Mandarin 1 at Piedmont High School and is one of many Bay Area students now learning the ...

In the fall of 2006, 23 kindergartners walked into their classroom for the first time at Starr King Elementary in San Francisco where their teacher only spoke Mandarin, a language most of the children ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. The World Language Steering Committee proposed a plan to add a Mandarin Chinese course at Wilton High School during Monday night ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...