I am a Cantonese speaker, so learning to read and write Chinese was my goal. I thought the school was very effective. There's really only one way to learn new characters, which is by mindless...

Despite knowing very limited Cantonese and struggling through 6 years of Mandarin classes taught in exclusively Cantonese, I still feel like I learned a lot from my experience at Cumberland. Maybe...

Call this either a mea culpa to the teachers and my parents for me not trying harder or wanting to master Chinese or whatever, but back in the days before the internet, my Saturday mornings were...

I attended this school for somewhere between 6-8 years of my Saturday life. I hated it. It was mostly a bunch of mindless drilling - some of which stuck, a lot of which didn't - mostly because...

So I went to this school for many years after English school. I hated it for the first 7 years but something inside told me to continue going as it will be very important in the future to know...