• New urgency to study Chinese in the US schools.  More...
• Chinese classes are now made available in some West Virginia High Schools now. Students cheer for being in these "cool" classes.  More...
  
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• Chinese program was reported in the Herald-dispatch, a daily newspaper in Huntington, WV. "HUNTINGTON -- What began as a cooperative interest between Chinese families residing in the Huntington area has grown into a language and cultural experience for quite a few people around town." More...
  

 

West Virginia superintendent Steve Paine annouced that West Virginia will more Chinese into the state.  Paine made the remarks after a recent trip to China, where he discovered that while 200 million Chinese have studied English, while only 24,000 Americans have studied Chinese.  More...

 

Times Asia has a cover story about learning Chinese. "China's economic rise means the world has a new second language—and it isn't English. It's Chinese!" More...