MURRIETA — There are a variety of reasons why students have flocked to Li Yang’s Mandarin Chinese classes at Murrieta Mesa High School the last four years. Some are drawn to study language because of ...

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 ...

HYANNIS, Mass.HYANNIS, Mass. — A Mandarin paper written by Barnstable High School junior Maddie Sawyer looks impossibly complex, filled with Chinese characters that are a world away from the “big ...

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 ...

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 ...

DIAMOND BAR >> Walk into Jie Gao’s classroom at Pantera Elementary School in Diamond Bar and it looks much like any other kindergarten classroom — decorated with pictures of colorful geometric shapes, ...

The bulk of the Bellflower students now learning Mandarin had never heard of the Chinese language before they began studying it in school. “A small percentage of students kind of know what Mandarin is ...

Several metro Atlanta districts, including Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett, offer Mandarin classes in at least some of their schools. A few other resources: Little Busy Bee Mandarin Play & Learn, 4920 ...

Costa Mesa High will offer Mandarin Chinese classes this fall, the first school in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District to do so. The foreign language classes gained unanimous approval from the ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Parents at an elementary school in Venice are upset that the Los Angeles Unified School District is planning to cut a Mandarin-language immersion class at their school.