With 22 million Chinese-speaking people to share the city with, Beijing is the place to give your Mandarin skills a major boost this summer. The jam-packed cosmopolitan city buzzes with a lively arts scene, and boasts a record number of top research institutions and technology companies. Visit incredible sites loaded with history, like Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Choose a theme-study weekend and expand your horizons.
You might visit the birthplace of Confucius in Qufu, as you examine traditional Chinese philosophy; visit the bustling port city Dalian to explore urbanization; or visit a village and hike in northern Shanxi province to dig into the environment and rural governance. See contemporary art, and musical and theatric performances, or take a day hike near Beijing. Learn about contemporary Chinese issues like international economics, cross-cultural communication, sustainability, and film with a special series of lectures given by scholars and other experts.
Homestays: Living with a host family option is ideal for students who want to establish relationships with Chinese people, live in a total Chinese-language environment, and make rapid progress in Chinese language and culture study. Students have their own bedroom and share the living room, kitchen, and bathroom some have a private bathroom.
Host families live within a minute commute of campus. The commute can take more than an hour when traffic is bad. Residence Halls: Zhongguanyuan Global Village has inviting, comfortable accommodations. Students live in suite-style units with one or two roommates CIEE students or other international students.
Each student has a private bedroom, and shared living space and bathroom. Internet access and share kitchens included. Homestays: Students are invited to family meals up to 14 times during the week, and should budget for other meals, including lunch on campus. Residence Halls: Meals are not included. Students typically eat at student cafeterias or at inexpensive restaurants on and around campus. This is a reputation that the program lived up to, and so I will of course recommend it to others in the future.
Hanging out with my new CIEE friends. Also, being able to listen and understand my homestay mom after a month of studying feels amazing. Students agree to speak Chinese to encourage language and cultural acquisition. Students receive a certificate of achievement from Peking University after completing the program. Peking University PKU was founded in and has a long tradition of scholarly excellence and political activism.
The prestigious PKU focuses on advanced research in the natural and social sciences. The campus, previously an imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty, hosts 30, undergraduate and graduate students. PKU has modern classrooms and recreational facilities, many cafeterias, and easy access to mass transit — all within short walking distance.
Individual courses may have additional prerequisites; for CIEE courses, these are listed in the syllabi below. Unlimited coffee and tea Others: No free beverages. Jayson M, Canada Student. What is the course schedule? Both of our packages 2-Week Summer or 4-Week Summer include the intensive Chinese learning program with 15 hours of classes per week.
You will have classes in the morning, from Monday to Friday from 9am to am with a minute break after each class a total of 3 classes per day. That way you will have the whole afternoon and evening for yourself. Who are the teachers? Our teachers are all native Chinese speakers who are highly-qualified and experienced in teaching Chinese to foreigners. Our teachers are university graduates with majors in Chinese language education or Chinese literature. What teaching materials do you use? We developed our own teaching and learning methods.
We use our own Chinese learning platform for all our classes. Will the classes be taught in English? All of our classes are taught in Chinese to give students a fully immersive Chinese experience. Even for absolute beginners, our teachers will only use limited English to help you understand. Our teacher will use pictures, videos, signs, and gestures to help students remember and understand new material.
Do you provide accommodation? We can help you to arrange your accommodation in China. Chinese Summer Camp in Beijing.
Well-lit, clean, modern classrooms Others: Old design classrooms. Free beverages. Unlimited coffee and tea Others: No free beverages. Carmella R, Italy Parent. Nadia H, Russia Parent. What is the course schedule? It depends on the program. Other types of Camps include different activities and fiend trips. Kid will have cultural activities or field trips to the most popular Chinese destinations in the mornings and Chinese classes after lunch and till 4 pm.
Full Camp students will also have 1 hour of homework time from 4 pm till 5 pm. Who are the teachers? Our teachers are all native Chinese speakers who are highly-qualified and experienced in teaching Chinese to foreigners.
Our teachers are university graduates with majors in Chinese language education or Chinese literature. What teaching materials do you use? We developed our own teaching and learning methods. We use our own Chinese learning platform for all our classes. Will the classes be taught in English?
All of our classes are taught in Chinese to give students a fully immersive Chinese experience. Even for absolute beginners, our teachers will only use limited English to help you understand. Our teacher will use pictures, videos, signs, and gestures to help students remember and understand new material.
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