the price per month seems a little steep for accoms??? i always thought
China was a very cheap place to stay in.
"Peter L" wrote in message
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> Beijing is an international city. You should have no problem with your
> languages. However I think you'll need a number of years of study before
> you get to the point of having a normal everyday conversation and be able
to
> read and write Chinese.
>
>
> "jpc" wrote in message
> news:ccd7c0af.0401061243.7be0eb14@posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> > I'm going to Beijing at the end of the month to study at the Beijing
> > language and Culture University. I have a couple of questions I think
> > some of you may have answers to, but first an outline of my goals:
> > 1) Learn as much spoken / written mandarin chinese as I can (enough so
> > I can speak without any hiccups in most daily conversations & enough
> > so i can use a computer in chinese)
> > 2) do some traveling on weekends / between semesters
> >
> > the plan:
> > I'm going to be there about 2 weeks before the semester starts and my
> > housing is still up in the air. It sounds like it is
> > first-come-first-serve at the dorms. The dorm rates are attractively
> > cheap at around $180/month for a shared room /bath in hallway, but I
> > don't know if it would be better to stay there or try and rent my own
> > apartment (250/month for a 2br?)
> >
> > I'll start by staying in one of the youth hostels around. I'm
> > thinking about FeiYing near the forbidden city.
> >
> > If anyone has been to this university / linguistics school before, I'd
> > love to hear your experience.
> >
> > I'm also going to be landing at 9pm and I only have 2 semesters of
> > elementary chinese (traditional too), so I only know a few expressions
> > and my comprehension is relatively poor (darn) at this point.
> >
> > Tips, experiences, etc? Thanks for all your help and feedback!
> > -jpc
>
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