Calling All Speakers of Mandingo
Given the new Ann Arbor Public Schools initiative to start teaching Spanish in its elementary schools, The Chronicle was intrigued by a recent AAPS classified ad looking for ESL tutors.
Classified ad run by Ann Arbor Public Schools
Even more intriguing was the kind of language preferences the system sought for bilingual tutors – Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic are all fairly predictable, but less so are Dutch, Hebrew, Portuguese, Turkish and Mandingo.
Mandingo? We had to call. [Full Story]