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	<li><strong>One or two semesters at a Chinese highschool</strong></li>
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	<li><strong>One of Beijing's best highschools</strong></li>
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<strong>Study in a Chinese highschool</strong> for one or two semesters, live with a Chinese host family, experience Chinese culture, learn Mandarin and have the experience of a life time. Learn Chinese culture and language, make Chinese friends for a life-time and become a global citizen. All while being supported by LTL, before, during and after your stay in China, we provide support, advice, and plenty of social activities for our students. <strong>
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<strong>Beijing Southwest Highschool </strong>(BSH) is located in the Southwestern part of Beijing and is a government elite school for international education. With a total of approximately 1,200 students, the BSH international studies department prepares Chinese teenagers for attending university abroad. As a result some subjects like science and mathematics are taught in both English and Chinese. However, during your stay you will be using Mandarin most of the time, communicating with your Chinese classmates and friends, as English is not widely spoken in China. Located a 15 minute walk from the next subway station, the school is only 45 minutes travel time away from the Beijing's city centre.

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<strong><a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/school-in-China.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6305" alt="school in China" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/school-in-China-300x228.jpg" width="300" height="228" /></a>Accommodation </strong>is with a Chinese host family in a single room or a room shared with the family's child. You will eat breakfast and dinner with your family, while lunch is served at the school cafeteria. Food is always plentiful, tasty and Chinese. If you crave international food, you can find that in Beijing's city centre, but in your family and school only Chinese food is served. Families are usually located within walking distance of BSH and never more than 45 minutes travel time away from the school.

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<strong>The LTL preparation program </strong>starts in Beijing, four weeks before you start your highschool program. You will intensively study Mandarin for twenty hours every week in small groups, with an average of four students per group at the LTL school campus in the Beijing Central Business District. During your first four months at BSH you will also study four hours of Mandarin in 1-on-1 classes at LTL.

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<strong><a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chinese-teenage-students.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6309" alt="Chinese teenage students" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chinese-teenage-students-300x197.jpg" width="300" height="197" /></a>Local support and social activities </strong>in Beijing are organized by LTL. This includes regular dinners and meetings for international students where students of all age groups and nationalities meet to talk about their experiences in China, make friends and explore China together. LTL also organizes regular weekend trips to the Great Wall or city's like Xian that are always a lot of fun. The LTL office and school are located in the Beijing city centre, where you can always find someone to talk to, to ask questions or just to take a quick break from your all China experience in an international environment. We provide full support for our students, both with advice to help you to make the most of your China experience and 24/7 emergency support.

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<strong>Safety </strong>is one of the most important parts of this program. Thankfully Beijing is one of the world's safest capitals and it is safe to walk through any part of the city at any time. The main thing to pay attention to is the traffic. Driving habits and adherence to traffic regulations in China might be quite different from what you are used to at home.

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<strong><a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/exchange-highschool-student-in-China.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6315" alt="exchange highschool student in China" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/exchange-highschool-student-in-China-253x300.jpg" width="253" height="300" /></a>Requirements</strong> to join the program are an open atitude to what will be a very different culture, school and family environment you are used to. It is very important to be willing to adapt and adjust into this environment, as while the environment at LTL is very international, at your highschool it will be overwhelmingly Chinese only. Most likely most or all your classmates will be Chinese who will be quite interested to learn and hear about your culture, but who themselves have never lived in or maybe not even visited another country. The family dynamics in China are also different and it is important that you are willing to fit into a Chinese family and be part of their life style. Your family will be very curious about you and how thing's are done in your country, they however are Chinese and live a Chinese life.

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<strong>Chinese language skills </strong>are an advantage, but are not required to participate in the program. You will study Mandarin intensively during your preparation program before startig your highschool program and your additional Chinese classes during your highschool program. Being fully immersed into a Chinese language environment, Mandarin language acquisition becomes very natural. All your classmates will study English at school, however very few will speak it fluently.

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<strong>Dates</strong>

<em>LTL Preparation Program: 4th of August - 29th of August 2014    </em>                           [button color=red url=http://ltl-chinois.fr/contact-us/ target=blank]Contact us to find out more[/button]
<em>Fall Semester: 1st of September 2014 to 19th of January 2015</em>
<em> Spring Semester: 23rd of February to 29th of June 2015</em>