fenixsan
3/13/2014 05:50 EST
Hello,
I'm looking to move to China for approximately 6 months to study Mandarin. I'm looking for suggestions of places to try. I'm hoping to find somewhere in a city/town that is not very westernised and speak predominately Mandarin so I can avoid spending too much time with other expats and be completely immersed in the language. The Keats Language school in Kunming has a 16 week package for 4000rmb which seems like very good value but unfortunately they're not accepting anymore students until September and I was hoping to start well before then. I tried looking into schools in Beijing for a comparison and they were up to 4 or 5 times this amount. Can anyone please give me some recomendations for reasonably priced places around China that I can contact?
Fenix
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CharlyShene
3/13/2014 23:52 EST
If you are looking for a city where people speak pre-dominantly Mandarin then Kunming is not a very good choice as the local accent there is incomprehensible to any speaker of standard Mandarin. Like in many areas in China many people can speak Mandarin there, however you will hear locals speaking Kunminghua with each other which is effectively a different language. If you want to go to a city that speaks generally good Mandarin, then Northern China is your only real option (except maybe Shenzhen). Beijing is an obvious choice (the school I studied there has cheap semester programs, but they also only start in September http://www.livethelanguage.cn/learn-chinese-beijing/semester-program/), but if you didn't find anything you like there, my first suggestion would be Chengde. I spent three weeks studying there and it has no expats (like really not a single one), there is only one small school (http://www.livethelanguage.cn/learn-chinese-chengde/) and life all day is in Mandarin only. Financialy, if your aim is to spend six months just learning Mandarin, I would say go to any state university, they are always the cheapest. If your aim is to learn as much Mandarin as possible, I think it is well worth to spend more money and just study for a shorter period to stay in the budget. You will learn more in two months in a full immersion environment with a good school than in six months in some large group program in a city where people do not really speak Mandarin.
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Wordoor
3/18/2014 00:35 EST
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sam2602
7/28/2014 04:39 EST
hey if you're still looking for somewhere to learn mandarin google 'shanghai contact me' and check out the mandarin section, they have links all over china not just in shanghai
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CharlyShene
5/26/2015 18:43 EST
In my opinion, the best place to study Mandarin is Northern China, where people actually speak Mandarin as their local language, opposed to Shanghai or Western China where different local languages/dialects are spoken and Mandarin is effectively a second language for most people (and even if they speak it, they do so with quite an accent)
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Manlyrous
8/27/2015 03:38 EST
I am a native Chinese teacher from Hanbridge Mandarin. Hope my answer will help you. If you are a beginner, you need to learn it from learn characters. In addition, the grammar is the most vital part of Chinese learning, if you want to speak fluency. The intermediate Chinese grammar is for those who have mastered at least 600 Chinese words and related grammar knowledge. You will enhance on the grammar knowledge and explore the new. After this, you will be able to communicate in Chinese on topics of life, study and work in a relatively fluent manner.
So learn Chinese from Hanbridge Mandarin:
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Manlyrous
8/27/2015 03:54 EST
I am a native Chinese teacher from Hanbridge Mandarin. Hope my answer will help you. If you are a beginner, you need to learn it from learn characters. In addition, the grammar is the most vital part of Chinese learning, if you want to speak fluency. The intermediate Chinese grammar is for those who have mastered at least 600 Chinese words and related grammar knowledge. You will enhance on the grammar knowledge and explore the new. After this, you will be able to communicate in Chinese on topics of life, study and work in a relatively fluent manner.
So learn Chinese from Hanbridge Mandarin: http://www.hanbridgemandarin.com/
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