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.

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 ...

While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Language Steering Committee proposed a plan to add a Mandarin Chinese course at Wilton High School during Monday night's Board of Education meeting. The committee originally intended to ...

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 ...

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.