Learn Chinese in Shanghai, China

  China

• Shanghai: 
Shanghai

Dates: Start every Monday, all year round.

Description: Our school is located in the Old French Concession District (between Huaihai Lu and the jinjiang Hotel).

This is a charming section of the city characterized by leafy tree-lined streets, beautiful, old crumbling European architecture, and crowned by the chic shopping street Huai Hai Middle Road.

The area offers many upscale boutiques, cafes, bars and shopping centers. On the budget side you will discover the Huating Market, a bustling open air market where shoppers bargain hard with the vendors.

The nostalgia of old Shanghai can be felt even more strongly by visiting the residence of Sun Yat-sen and his wife, Soong Qing Ling. Their home has been beautifully preserved and visitors can walk the grounds.

Our new school in Shanghai is centrally located and offers modern facilities with nice classrooms, computer lab with internet access for students and a warm friendly atmosphere.

Our teachers are all university educated and we offer a cultural activity program each week but remains optional.

Highlights: Shanghai is probably the most evocative city for an outsider in the whole of China. Beijing may be more purely, mysteriously Chinese but only Shanghai offers such a heady brew of half-digested images and preconceptions.

For the second city of the world's oldest surviving ancient civilization, Shanghai is surprisingly new. Literally 'On the Sea', Shanghai is a port city on the Huangpu River, where the Yangzi River empties into the East China Sea.

The area was marshland until the Song Dynasty (AD 960-1126), when refugees from Mongol and other northern nomad invasions settled the area. By 1291, Shanghai had become a county capital.

The growing city got its wall in 1553 (prophetically, against Japanese pirates) and a customs house in 1685. Shanghai was only thrust into the spotlight in June 1842, when a British seaborne force captured it during the First Opium War. One of five cities pried open to Western colonial trade by the Treaty of Nanjing, Shanghai gained foreign districts controlled by the colonial powers - the British and American Concessions (soon combined as the International Settlement) and the French Concession.

This hybrid city boomed as the focus of Chinese colonial trade and Qing Dynasty China uneasily coexisted with Western power for almost a century.

Cost in US$: 2 weeks from $1570 USD

All programs also include:
* Use of teaching materials and instructional documents
* Letter of acceptance for visa application
* Maximum class size: 12 students
* Accommodation in a shared apartment, single room, no meals
* Free internet access
* Placement test on the first morning at beginning of course.
* Optional cultural and social activities, weekend trips
* Language proficiency certificate at end of program upon request.
* The Standard & Work Program also includes work placement fee, student is responsible for accommodations during the work term.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to China Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 12

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application