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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maryknoll teacher Meiyi Shade, left, plays a word game with Ryder Nievera, Reese Malefyt and Graysen Gier during a Mandarin class. Since introducing the program, it has seen a steady stream of ...

School District U-46 plans to add Japanese and Mandarin language classes to its elective offerings at all five high schools in the 2022-23 academic year. “Initially, Level 1 would be available at all ...

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 ...