AprilTulip Posted May 4, 2010 at 05:45 PM Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 at 05:45 PM I'm planning to go to Fudan or ECNU for summer language course. Anyone had experience? I want rather challenging and intensive course, and Fudan is better about that as I understand, also, they have already scheduled tours for students on weekends. ECNU, on the other hand, is specializing in teaching chinese to foreigners, as I understand. But they don't even have the start dates for the course yet, and also I haven't found information on whether they provide JW202 form for short-term students to obtain visas (anyone has information on that)? Please, write your opinions! Any information is welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa- Posted May 10, 2010 at 11:38 PM Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 at 11:38 PM I'm planning to go to Fudan or ECNU for summer language course. Anyone had experience? snip Hi! I was considering both as well. Are you talking about the ECNU International Summer School? Because that program only offers Mandarin for 1 hr 40 mins in the morning and then a variety of different choices the rest of the day. I don't know about you but I would rather do purely Mandarin than do econ or accounting or something as well (I have enough of that now at uni, thank you very much ). I think the dates are July 5 - Aug 13. I'm not sure if I can those dates. At Fudan it's the 2-4 week program you're talking about right? The tuition fees are insanely low (US$ 556) compared to actually all the other programs I've looked at but yeah it has a good reputation. And it looks really intense, even classes on Saturdays!! It's nice they have organized trips as well like you said. Other than the schedule here: http://iso.fudan.edu.cn/downloads/201008hydq.swf, there isn't much more information about this program in English unfortunately! I also checked out China Study Abroad (csa.com) and they offer a 4 week program at Fudan starting August 1st and they say it's 4 hours group and 2 hrs individual per day, but no where on the Fudan website can I find a program on this date offering individual teaching as well. Plus it's pretty expensive (US$2,485 with accommodation) on the CSA website. Hm. Maybe I'll write them an e-mail. But as I gather from the forum posts I've read, people recommend applying directly to the university (or maybe through CUCAS?) instead of through agencies like CSA. I have no idea about that document you're talking about- I'm not that far into my research yet to consider visas But yeah as you can probably tell I would go for the Fudan program because I want to focus on Mandarin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AprilTulip Posted June 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM Hi, Lisa! At ECNU I was considering Chinese only program, they offer it as well as the Summer School. And the prices are lower than those for Fudan. I actually think, that Fudan tuition prices are among the highest I've seen for China Universities. It's even more expensive than BLCU prices! But I went for Fudan, as their language course seems to be more intensive, and they actually replied to my e-mails unlike ECNU... So, I applied directly to Fudan, waiting for admission notice now, and packing my luggage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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