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.
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]