Chinese Courses in China during the summer
corbett201
June 05, 2011, 02:48 AM posted in General DiscussionCan anyone recommend any courses to learn Chinese in China durung the summer? I'm thinking of taking a learning holiday. I'm interested in residential type courses at a college or university aimed at intermediate learners. I'm also interested in a group type thing where you can make new friends and have some fun. I don't really want to go to Beijing, I'm more interested in other places, and I also don't want very expensive things aimed at foreigners jetting in from the west for a short stay. I've been living in China recently and need something reasonable priced. Thanks anyone who can advise.
corbett201
Thanks very much for your kind response.
I'm kind of amazed to get only one answer in 2 days. I had some idea there was a lively friendly community here, guess I was misinformed.
cinnamonfern
June 07, 2011, 04:11 AMI'm sorry you haven't gotten much respone. Perhaps you just posted at a time when there were a lot of posts happening. It's very easy for them to get buried. I've never studied in China so I can't answer your question but hopefully this will bump your post so more people will respond. :)
bodawei
June 07, 2011, 09:40 AMIt's difficult to make specific recommendations without more information. In general most cities will have a multitude of options amongst the universities, private colleges and private tutors. You live here so the best thing is to have a look at the options yourself and see what you think.
'During the summer' - I don't know whether that means the whole summer season or something that equates to North American holidays. Universities tend to be a little more rigid about terms, private colleges often go pretty continuously.
Most options apart from private tutors will have a ready-made group - your classmates.
xiaophil
June 05, 2011, 05:10 AMI attended classes at Jiaotong University in Shanghai. Those were okay, but the usual problems applied, outdated and less practical material. Overall though, a good experience. Later I had the opportunity to sit in on an upper-intermediate class at East China University of Science and Technology. The same problems applied, but at the upper levels I noticed the class sizes were very small. The tuition fee is lower too. So this is my advice: keep an open mind to the lesser known schools as you might actually get more student/teacher interaction.