Daily Chronicle – Katie Smith
“Room 108 at DeKalb High School hummed with Mandarin phrases and songs during StarTalk’s summer Chinese language performance Friday…For the past three weeks, children from DeKalb County have gathered at the high school for five hours a night, three nights a week, learning to count, speak and sing in Mandarin. Now that the program has ended, students are challenged to incorporate Chinese culture and language into their homes…There are more than 800 million native Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world. After 70 hours, each student was able to introduce their parents, count to 33, maintain a conversation and perform a Chinese song and dance. “We prepare American students with global knowledge,” StarTalk nurture director Fred Lu said.”(more)