Payton offers French, Spanish and Chinese as options for foreign language courses. For children like him, their pronunciation and their love of Chinese learning were implanted into their growing up from the beginning,' said Xu. 'This little child I see, for example, at the age of five began to take Chinese class. Many Payton children started learning Chinese at a very young age, and later developed their interests in the oriental country.

'I really became interested in traditional Chinese dance, maybe kind of want to join my school's Chinese traditional dance club and hopefully get better at dancing,' added Zilinger. Xu Qun teaches us a lot about the culture, which is also so different from English, which I found so interesting as well,' Helen told Xinhua. 'So it is really challenging for me, but I found it really fascinating for me to learn, like when you learn it you can also learn about the culture. Then I think it will help me to communicate a lot when I become a doctor,' said Zilinger. 'I think I even want to have a double major with Mandarin being one of my majors, because I just love learning Mandarin so much. Payton, as well as its Confucius Institute, is where their ambition blossoms over Chinese learning. Despite the diversity, their love for Mandarin is common and strong. So I have to be careful when I speak the tones.'ДЄt Payton, 30 to 40 percent of students are white, 20 percent Asian and 20 to 30 percent Latinos. But in Mandarin it can change the entire meaning of a word. Kaylee Zilinger echoed the views, saying 'probably because as an English speaker, how the tonality works doesn't really matter. I feel like I don't pronounce tone marks correctly at times,' said Ernest Rionaula. 'The most difficult thing I find personally is the tone marks. Students met their challenges as well as found opportunities at the institute. In 2006, Payton joined hands with East China Normal University in Shanghai to co-found the Confucius Institute, which was then the only one of its kind at overseas secondary school in the world.

So I think taking most of the languages, like Chinese especially, maybe help me with career in some type of foreign language,' said Helen. 'I personally find learning other languages very interesting, which is why I have taken two different courses of them. Some parents think Chinese is so important that they hire a Chinese-speaking nanny to look after their children.'ДЇounded in 2000, Payton is now one of the best public high schools in Chicago.ДЄs one of the nine 'selective enrollment' high schools in the city, it has prided itself on highly qualified learners who value Chinese lessons a lot. are very young when they start learning Chinese. Xu Qun, who came from China for her Mandarin-teaching job at Payton, has noticed for a long time the trendy choice among American children, saying that 'I think a lot of children in the U.S. So I think learning it is super important, because so many different people speak it,' Helen, a Payton enrollee, told Xinhua in a recent interview.

'Chinese is one of the most widely used language in the world. President Donald Trump's grand-daughter performed months ago during her visit to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. Upper schoolers at the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School like to warm up their get-togethers with a rendition of Jasmine, the classic Chinese folk song that U.S.

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