LTL Mandarin School runs all year, including Christmass and Chinese New Year. While the school is closed on Chinese holidays, all classes are moved to other days before or after the holiday, meaning that the curriculum continues normally throughout the year and it is possible to study throughout the whole year without loosing any classes.

[caption id="attachment_5233" align="alignright" width="200"]<a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ma.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5233" alt="Chinese Year of the horse" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ma.jpg" width="200" height="200" /></a> 2014 is the year of the horse.[/caption]

For 2014 LTL is closed on the following days:

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	<li>January 1st, 2014 – International New Year</li>
	<li>January 31st – February 4th – Chinese New Year</li>
	<li>April 7th 2014 – Qing Ming Jie</li>
	<li>May 1st 2014 – Labour Day</li>
	<li>June 2th 2014 – Dragon Boat Festival</li>
	<li>September 8th 2014 – Mid-Autumn Festival</li>
	<li>October 1st – 3rd – National Holiday</li>
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For the following dates in 2014, classes will be <strong>moved from a working day to a weekend</strong>:

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	<li>February 5th and 6th are moved to January 26th (Saturday) and February 8th (Saturday)</li>
	<li>Monday, October 6th and Tuesday October 7th are moved to Sunday September 28th and October 11th</li>
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Please make sure you adjust your arrival times accordingly! If there are any questions, we are more than happy to explain, just drop us an email. [button color=red url=http://ltl-chinois.fr/contact-us/ target=self]Contact us[/button][hr style=dotted-line margin_top=20 margin_bottom=20]

<span style="font-size: large;">Why it works this way</span>

Because Chinese holidays follow a lunar calendar, the dates can change from year to year. In an attempt to create consecutive days of holiday time for people to travel to their hometowns, workers in China are often required to substitute a weekend day for a mid-week working day. In this way, you still get the same number of working days and holidays, but the holidays are blocked together.

<em>It’s important to note that this day-swapping is applied differently by various companies and government offices. in China. For interns, please make sure you check with your company how they adjust their working times.</em>

At LTL, we believe the work day substitution makes sense when it creates a weeklong holiday, which is the case for Chinese New Year and National Holiday. However, it doesn’t make sense to schedule classes the Saturday and Sunday before Qingming Festival in order to create what would only be a 3-day holiday from Monday-Wednesday.

So, for Chinese New Year and National Day, LTL will follow the official Chinese government system for swapping working days for weekend days. For all other holidays, we will only move the classes from the holiday, to either the week before, after, or just teach on the actual holiday.

You can find the official explanation in Chinese <a href="http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2012-12/10/content_2286598.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.