Sharon Gan knew there was a need when she started Heart Strings Mandarin more than two years ago. The mom of two had unsuccessfully searched for a Mandarin song and storytime for years - first when ...

Harrison Township – — Dominique Canty reaches for the yellow crayon to color a rainbow in her kindergarten class. "What did you say the word is again in Chinese for yellow?" asks the 5-year-old ...

Last summer, Barbara Odom of Chanhassen looked at her daughter and considered two possibilities for the girl's first days in a Mandarin Chinese kindergarten class. One, Gabbi would love language ...

Durrell Laury was in line at Nordstrom with his mom when he heard a group of women behind him speaking Mandarin. The 5-year-old turned and said, "Ni hao (hello)," watching for their reaction. The ...

The Lake Oswego School District will offer two half-day Kindergarten Mandarin Chinese Immersion classes in 2011-12, contingent upon hiring qualified staff and on achieving sufficient enrollment to ...

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 ...