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| | Why Chinese | | | • The Chinese culture is one of the oldest in the world. According to studies the Chinese language is the number one spoken language in the
world. | • Studies indicate that students who took a foreign language course had higher SAT/ACT scores than those that did not have such an experience.
Language learning is a unique exercise of mind, helping develop logical and analytical patterning system (left-brain process). Learning Chinese
can actually improve your mental ability. Unlike the alphabet-based western languages, the written Chinese language is a language of symbols/
pictures. Learning to recognize Chinese characters is basically a right-brain process. | • Learning Chinese characters has been used to improve the intelligence of children with genetic disabilities.Its effects were profound and
sgnificant. | • China’s tremendous economic growth and emergence as a cultural and political leader has increased the need for the United States to educate
American students who can speak Chinese proficiently and can demonstrate an understanding of Chinese culture. | | • The demand for business people who know Chinese (Mandarin) is skyrocketing. | • New Life Academy of Excellence’s goal is to be instrumental in meeting this need by producing bi-lingual students who are not only fluent in both
English and Chinese, but who also will be able to function in both languages academically, intellectually and socially. | | |
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