I wanna study chinese in china

[bigmodo]

Hi friends. I want to come to china to study Chinese precisely guangzhou. Does one know any good Chinese language school I can enroll in? I don't know a single Chinese. I prefer to stay in guangzhou. Thanks.

[language_lover]

Are you open to changing location? I think you'd get a better choice of school in Shanghai or Beijing.

 

 

[Jan Finster]

Guangzhou has a lot of Cantonese speakers and it is crazy hot in summer (even more so than BJ) 

[bigmodo]

On 9/10/2024 at 6:30 AM, language_lover said:

 

Boss, I just want to stay one year in china to explore business opportunities and see if I can be bring to my country to invest in it. So for that one year, I want to use to it and learn chinese language while exploring the business opportunities.

[zhouhaochen]

LTL might open a language school in Guangzhou, so in the future that would be an option, but currently there is no physical LTL school there.

In general I would agree with the suggestions above, if you want to learn Mandarin go to a city where Mandarin is the main knowledge.

[bigmodo]

Thanks all. So I want to settle for Shanghai, Shenzhen or Qingdao. Does anyone know any good language school in Shanghai where I can easily learn mandarin. 

[honglam]

On 9/13/2024 at 4:13 AM, bigmodo said:

Does anyone know any good language school in Shanghai where I can easily learn mandarin. 

Shanghai International Studies University provides Chinese language programmes. Maybe you could see their website for details.

[bigmodo]

On 9/13/2024 at 7:15 AM, honglam said:

Shanghai International Studies University provides Chinese language programmes. Maybe you could see their website for details.

 I need a language school. I don't want university. I just need basic mandarin, at least to be able to speak, hear, read and write in mandarin.

[honglam]

On 9/13/2024 at 5:31 PM, bigmodo said:

I need a language school. I don't want university. I just need basic mandarin, at least to be able to speak, hear, read and write in mandarin.

There's no conflict between these two statement. SISU is a university, but she's providing language programmes just as language schools do. Many universities in China provide short-term language learning programmes.

I was informed that SISU has stopped there online programmes so maybe you have to find some local school. And BLCU Online Education College offers some language learning programmes online at different levels as well. BLCU is a university specialised in International Communication and Teaching Chinese as a second language so I guess they have some special advantages. Or you can search for the HSK programme of Peking University on coursera, that's a online course and may not take much time, since what you asked for is just fundamental Chinese skill.

(PS. In order to communicate with native speaker, I think basic knowledge and competence of Mandarin may not be enough)

[bigmodo]

On 9/14/2024 at 5:19 AM, honglam said:

There's no conflict between these two statement. SISU is a university, but she's providing language programmes just as language schools do. Many universities in China provide short-term language learning programmes.

I was informed that SISU has stopped there online programmes so maybe you have to find some local school. And BLCU Online Education College offers some language learning programmes online at different levels as well. BLCU is a university specialised in International Communication and Teaching Chinese as a second language so I guess they have some special advantages. Or you can search for the HSK programme of Peking University on coursera, that's a online course and may not take much time, since what you asked for is just fundamental Chinese skill.

(PS. In order to communicate with native speaker, I think basic knowledge and competence of Mandarin may not be enough)

 

Thanks a lot

[zhouhaochen]

I work for LTL, so I wont comment on the quality (which I think is awesome, but I am biased), but there is LTL Shanghai, which also has thread on Chinese Forums https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/52235-ltl-mandarin-school-shanghai/#comment-402479 too, though nobody has written anything on there for a while. If you have any questions about studying at LTL Shanghai, feel free to ask on that thread.

[Jan Finster]

On 9/14/2024 at 6:19 AM, honglam said:

In order to communicate with native speaker, I think basic knowledge and competence of Mandarin may not be enough

Yes, I think Op should define what skill level is aimed for. Chinese is hard. 

[bigmodo]

On 9/19/2024 at 3:32 PM, Jan Finster said:

Yes, I think Op should define what skill level is aimed for. Chinese is hard. 

I think I just want to be able to speak Chinese, hear Chinese, write in Chinese and be able to read in Chinese. What is the level I want? 

[Jan Finster]

This is still vague. Even if you modestly say, I want to only be able to have daily small talk and be able to write forum posts on social media and be able to read web novels, this could take you  3-5 years or more. 

[bigmodo]

On 9/28/2024 at 11:19 AM, Jan Finster said:

This is still vague. Even if you modestly say, I want to only be able to have daily small talk and be able to write forum posts on social media and be able to read web novels, this could take you  3-5 years or more

Are you serious? I thought I can learn it in 6 months or a year

[Jan Finster]

On 9/28/2024 at 1:09 PM, bigmodo said:

Are you serious? I thought I can learn it in 6 months or a year

Have you ever studied a foreign language???

Chinese is among the hardest in the world. If your native language is English, there is no chance you would be able to reach such a level in 6 months in German, which is much, much easier. 

[Flickserve]

On 9/28/2024 at 7:09 PM, bigmodo said:

I thought I can learn it in 6 months or a year

You should be able to cover basics in a year. 

[bigmodo]

On 9/28/2024 at 11:09 PM, Jan Finster said:

Chinese is among the hardest in the world

You have put fear in me, it seems am gonna change my mind about learning chinese

[Flickserve]

On 9/29/2024 at 9:24 PM, bigmodo said:

You have put fear in me, it seems am gonna change my mind about learning chinese

Have you tried learning any Chinese yet?

[bigmodo]

On 9/30/2024 at 4:30 AM, Flickserve said:

Have you tried learning any Chinese yet?

I have not, I am still trying to apply to Shanghai University