Family

For Families Entering the Spanish Immersion Program

Berkeley Elementary School Immersion Programs

Center for Applied Linguistics

Blog for parents raising bilingual children

A very successful immersion school

Language Immersion Programs

Suggested Sites for Children to Begin Exposure to Spanish

http://www.poissonrouge.com/abcespanol/index.html

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm

http://www.purposegames.com/games?t=1165&so=mp

http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_for_children

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/foreignlang.html#spanishgames

http://www.bilingualfun.com/

http://www.learn-spanish-language-software.com/games/index.htm

For Families Entering the Mandarin Immersion Program

Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
The goals of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council are to.

• Be a source of information about Mandarin immersion education
• Provide a forum for parents to share their own experiences with their children's Mandarin immersion education

The Mandarin Center
Is a resource for Mandarin Chinese Immersion teachers as well as a recruiting section (posting jobs and teachers looking for jobs)

STARTALK
Is a Presidential Initiative to Fund Summer Programs in Critical Languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, Swahili and Urdu.

California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)

Blog site with lots of information for parents

Suggested Sites for Children to Begin Exposure to Mandarin

http://www.words-chinese.com/2010/02/happy-chinese-pinyin-12-lessons.htm

http://www.chinese4kids.net/30.php

http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

http://learningchineseonline.net/

http://www.chinese-tools.com/phrasebook

http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/

http://www.123byte.com

http://www.5qchannel.com/class.asp
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The link above is for the cartoon