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Last summer, Barbara Odom of Chanhassen looked at her daughter and considered two possibilities for the girl's first days in a Mandarin Chinese kindergarten class. One, Gabbi would love language ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...