Learning Mandarin has become a fad in the United States. Some reports even projected that Chinese language would someday replace Enlgish as a universal language in the world. Student Megan Wilson, 10-years-old, writes a poem in Chinese by Li Bai as her teacher, Dr. Zhian Zhang (top) instructs his 5th grade full Chinese immersion class 19 January 2007 at Potomac Elementary School in Maryland.

學中文在美國已經成為一門顯學，有報導甚至預測，中文可能取代英文成為世界最通行的語言。馬里蘭州波多馬克小學十歲學生梅根．威爾森正一本正經的在練習寫李白的詩句「床前明月光，疑似地上霜，（舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉）。」他的老師張江則在2007年1月19日正在指導五年級的班上同學潛心學中文。