Geneva, Switzerland Course: 4 weeks, 20 hours/week, residence, June 2010
Overall
Good learning environment. Teacher are mostly helpful. Accomodation and food on campus is okay and cheap. But staff is unfriendly to foreigners.
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Pros
Teachers, imersion, course structure
Cons
Staff was very unhelpful and unfriendly. Tried to make me pay twice for the course and twice for my stay. They refuse to speak English with people just beginning to learn Chinese. I spent 2 entire afternoons negociating with them so they did not throw me out because I had paid 2 month in advance.
Many other students, friendly yet serious teachers, good location, beautiful campus, accommodation and many facilities on campus, etc.
Cons
I did not find any English-speaking staff on campus, which was problematic at times.
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Sílvia
Barcelona, Spain Course: 6 weeks, 20 hours/week, residence, July 2012
Overall
I studied together with other people from all over the world. Classes where completely in Chinese and this is the way to eventually speak the language!
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Pros
20 people per class max which let´s you participate a lot.