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Chinese Mandarin Immersion

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Our Mandarin Immersion program offers children the opportunity to learn Mandarin in an activity based environment with our experienced bilingual teachers in a very large setting.....

Chinese Mandarin Immersion

Our Mandarin Immersion program offers children the opportunity to learn Mandarin in an activity based environment with our experienced bilingual teachers in a very large setting. No prior Chinese language is required of either the child or the family.

Throughout the day, our program supports the acquisition of Mandarin language through songs, poems, and stories. In addition, the children develop Mandarin while exploring, observing and experimenting through meaningful and relevant content and engaging activities, children acquire Mandarin fluency and the disposition to be life-long learners. Interactions and meaningful activities promote the development of social skills, emotional growth, physical coordination, as well as cognitive skills Our philosophy for teaching the children is to concentrate on speaking and listening, conversational skills, first. Children learn Mandarin Chinese in much the same way as they learn their first, native tongue -- by hearing it, speaking it, using it verbally. For a tonal language such as Mandarin Chinese, this is imperative for mastering early and instinctively, the tone of the language.

Specifically, the children learn Mandarin through singing songs, dancing, exercising, playing games, participating in outdoor activities, and arts and crafts such as painting pictures. They are having fun, being engaged, and it's almost transparent to them that they are learning in Mandarin.

Repetition is important. Topic groups are introduced (e.g., colors, family members, fruits and vegetables...), and later built on, repeated, in various ways in different combinations (for instance, during arts and crafts or singing).

Learning Mandarin Chinese as a child is the very best way for non-native speakers of the language to lay a life-long, solid, foundation of fluency in a language that is not easy to learn as an adult.

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