Educational exchange on the Peninsula - Inside Bay Area:
"BELMONT — Kindergartners at Cipriani Elementary School took time out from the playground and, as a group, began counting in Mandarin.
The foreign-language demonstration impressed visiting Chinese principals Lillian Meng and Caroline Zheng.
'They are very happy to speak Mandarin,' Meng said of the young students, who just started learning the Chinese dialect last month. 'They are confident.'
'They pronounce very excellently,' Zheng said.
The pair's visit Thursday was part of the California-Shanghai Principal Exchange Program sponsored by the California School Boards Association."
"BELMONT — Kindergartners at Cipriani Elementary School took time out from the playground and, as a group, began counting in Mandarin.
The foreign-language demonstration impressed visiting Chinese principals Lillian Meng and Caroline Zheng.
'They are very happy to speak Mandarin,' Meng said of the young students, who just started learning the Chinese dialect last month. 'They are confident.'
'They pronounce very excellently,' Zheng said.
The pair's visit Thursday was part of the California-Shanghai Principal Exchange Program sponsored by the California School Boards Association."