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ATTENTION
From beginner to intermediate levels, courses are taught in English.
For other levels, in Chinese.
 

ATTENTION: Your enrolment request MUST reach us 6 to 8 weeks before the starting dates planned, and thus for administrative reasons with the People Republic of China.

For Canadian citizens, a visa is compulsory. 

VISA INFORMATION:
All students must come to China with a valid passport (at least 6 months) and a visa.
- For short stays under 30 days, a tourist visa (L) is sufficient. A letter of invitation is not always needed to apply for a tourist visa: please contact your local Chinese consulate.
- For longer stays (more than 30 days) it is compulsory to apply for a ‘F’ visa (visit on special purpose). This 90 day visa is renewable 3 times for a  maximum total duration of 12 months.
In this case, we provide a letter of invitation for 12 weeks (even for students who have applied for
a longer stay).
During the stay, students must renew their visa 7 days before expiry. The school provide a new letter of invitation and the staff are happy to help with the formalities.

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 50 minutes.
• Minimum age: 16.
• Schedule: 09:00 AM, flexible depending on the choosen program.
• 8 students per class.
• Group or private courses: minimum 2 weeks.
• All levels available from beginner to advanced.
• School material.
• Internet access, high speed.
• Many activities organized by the school , optional and to be paid on the spot. 1 activity every afternoon: 5$US per activity.
• Business Chinese: for intermediate to advanced levels only. 30 lessons per week (10 for exclusive and specific business vocabulary and business environment situations).
• INTERNSHIP: for advanced level students only. 4 weeks course (20 lessons per week + working in a Chinese company from 4 to 8 weeks.
• Test and certificate of course completion.

Subway station:
The school is located between Jing An Temple station (north) and Chang Shu Road (south).
Average price of a subway ticket: 3 Yuan (0.35 euros).
Distance to the ‘Bund’ around 50 mins by foot
(or 30 mins by taxi depending on the traffic)
Distance to ‘Nanjing Road’ (longest shopping street) around 25 mins by foot:
Distance to the airport: 50/60 mins drive

FOR SHANGHAI ONLY

Recent Rule: all visitors coming to Shanghai have to obtain a Registration Form of Temporary Residence within three days!
If students stay at hotels or serviced apartments, the reception staff will give them this form.
If students stay at our accommodation, we will help them to obtain this form
If students arrange their own accommodation, they must go to the local police station with their
landlord, bring their passport, a rental contract and owner certificate presented by their landlord.
Students without a valid Registration Form will be considered as illegal residents in China and will
receive a warning or a fine (500 eur or more).

Starting Dates

GROUP COURSE: Beginners MUST start on the following dates:

Other levels, any Monday.

Private courses (1 to 1): any Monday

School closing dates.

Tuition missed during these periods will be caught up except in February from 6 to 13.

Available options

• Airport transfer: one way 35 Euros
   
• Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31, 2008.These prices never include the plane ticket.

Number of classrooms : 9 (air conditioning throughout the school)
Small Cafeteria corner : Drinks available: cold water/ Jasmine tea/ black
tea/ coffee
Number of computers available for the students: 2
+ free internet access: WIFI or ethernet connection for student’s laptops
Small lounge for students:on second floor
The ‘Welcome package’ includes:
Course Material
Student Card
Information about School & Accommodation
Emergency and Useful Number
Consulates addresses
Tourist Map
Metro Map
Expatriate Magazines
Name and tel. of person in Charge of general information
Restaurants, supermarkets, groceries, dry-clean shops, travel agencies, medical service, drugstore and banks addresses.
Chinese test:
On first morning to assess student’s level and determine class. This test can also be an informal oral test according to students’ level

RATES

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Prices are in Euros (€). Please convert in Canadian dollars when final payment is made. Thank you.

Hostel accommodation.

• Arrival on Sunday.

• Departure on Saturday.
   

• They are located 10 mn walk to the school, and are of a very good standard:
  Shared bathroom with standing shower.
  Shared kitchen with Microwave and stove.
  Washing machine, Fridge, Water-cooler, Air-conditioning
  Cleaning lady twice a week
  Bed linen and towels provided
  Free internet access for broadband in the shared living room (no computer supplied)
  Bedrooms can be locked with a key
  There are 2 & 3 pins sockets in the rooms.
   

• Hostel, only 10 mins walk from the school, quality, clean rooms, with air-conditioning. No meal. Private or shared bathrooms.

"HOSTEL" FEES IN $US.
To be paid before leaving.

City information

The name means " going towards the sea ". Changjiang (River Yangzi) throw itself into the sea not far from there. Biggest city of China, more than 14 million inhabitants, extends over 6340 km. Economic and financial centre of China, 15 % of the national industrial production comes from Shanghai. The city knows an extraordinary development since the 90s: new constructions of shopping centres and peripheral highways
Shanghai is strewed with skyscrapers extreme reactionary modern dedicated to offices or private housing, varied in their architecture and well arranged in the townscape today. If it stays of numerous districts with dense houses or blocks without style inherited from the years 60/70, the Chinese old town was protected for the biggest pleasure of the western tourists.

The modern department stores look like those of the big western cities, because we meet only working, walking or purchasing Chinese there. Traced on this model, numerous big cities of China, often localized in the special economic zones, demonstrate the vitality of these people and its desire to catch up very quickly the most modern nations.

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