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International Day at Emmett’s School

International Day at Emmett’s School

On Friday night my family went to International Night at my son’s school – this was sort of a glorified potluck dinner for the whole school with dishes from all over the world and a music performance. Because we live in Battery Park City (at the tip of Manhattan) which has a very international population [...]

Kristof asks, “Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen.” Why not both?

Nicholas Kristof was already one of my favorite New York Times journalists*, so I was thrilled to see him taking up the topic of foreign language teaching to kids in his recent column “Primero Hay Que Aprender Espanol, Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen” (translation: First learn Spanish, then study Chinese). If you missed it, Kristof makes [...]

Little Pim on BharatBhasha.com!

We enjoy seeing Little Pim featured on websites of all shapes and sizes. A new review was just posted on the article sharing website, BharatBhasha.com. Father, Little Pim reseller and author Ray Ritchey had this to say about teaching children Chinese using Little Pim: “Little Pim DVDs are very useful for little children to learn [...]