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What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?

What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-autumn Festival (9/19/2013) Mid-autumn Festival, or Chinese Moon Festival, is a festival for people who love to admire the full...

First African American to Head a College

Patrick Healy was born 27 February 1830 on a cotton plantation near Macon, Georgia, to Michael and Mary Eliza Healy....

Language of Choice

More and more, Americans are learning a second language and Chinese is emerging as a language of choice. City Terrace...

Why Black People Are Learning Chinese

Repost from the Root: When Zuri Patterson, a second-grader, entered her new classroom the first day of school, butterflies traveled...

Hansel & Gretel Musical – in Mandarin

Hansel and Gretel Fairy Tale and Classical Music for The Entire FamilyEnjoy this Mandarin language family friendly version of the...

PAASSC Theme Song: “I Can Speak Chinese”

While I admit I don’t know all of the words I love the beat and the general intent of this...

Best Ways to Assess Student Performance in Immersion Programs

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They...

Marketus Presswood: On Being Black in China

People of African origin are still uncommon in China, but the infusion of international culture has started to erode traditional...

Being Black & Bilingual

  By Jamila Nightingale My family’s road to Chinese immersion began just days after my husband and I walked down...

3 Tips for Monolingual Parents Raising Bilingual Children

In my goal to seek informative posts for PAASSC parents I am often frustrated. Most sites that encourage parents to...

Beijing’s First African Hair Salon

Who knew that a black hair salon could create a lot of buzz  — especially in a country where most...

Kids Learn Mandarin Application

Kids Learn Mandarin Application

Fingerprint continues to dismantle the great wall between entertainment and education with its newest learning app, Kids Learn Mandarin, available today exclusively...

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