Mandarin -- The Language of the 21st Century

The Boston Globe reports that Chinatown’s Kwong Kow Chinese School has embraced the teaching of Mandarin to keep up with changing times. It quotes Peter Kiang, director of the Asian American Studies Program at UMass-Boston: "Everyone just realizes that Mandarin is the language of the 21st century."

Here in Panda Land, we have children from Chinese American families whose mother tongue is Cantonese.  They also recognize the trend and want to learn Mandarin.  Panda Land uses the same series of textbooks as seen above at the Kwong Kow School.

Read the full article “A new accent in Chinatown” from Boston Globe 02/26 at:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/26/a_new_accent_in_chinatown/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed5

 In Panda Land, we prepare your children for the 21 century!