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	<li><strong>Personalised Curriculum</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Certified Teacher</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Weekly Start Dates</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Individual Chinese Classes in Beijing</strong></li>
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<strong>Individual Mandarin Classes </strong>are a great choice for Chinese learners of all levels and allow you to see rapid progress with individual attention. This intensive Chinese course includes 20 hours per week of 1-on-1 Class at our Beijing Campus. LTL personalizes your curriculum in accordance with your aims so you can get as much as possible out of your studies with us, whether short or long term. This also makes Individual Mandarin Classes a recommended choice for advanced learners who need to focus on more specific areas of Chinese or for students looking to improve industry specific Chinese.

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<strong>Intensive Individual Mandarin Classes </strong>are a great choice for those up to the challenge of learning Mandarin as quickly as possible. This course includes 30 hours per week of 1-on-1 Class making it our most intensive program. The combination of increased exposure to Mandarin and increased class time with our teachers mean these students tend to improve more rapidly.

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<strong>Individual Mandarin Classes and Culture Classes </strong>for those interested in gaining an insight into Chinese culture alongside Intensive Mandarin Study.This course includes 20 hours per week of Individual Mandarin Class and 10 hours per week of Chinese Culture Class. Both Mandarin classes and Chinese culture classes are taught by trained professionals in each field. Options range from kung fu to calligraphy to cooking and much more.
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<h2>Course overview</h2>
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<th rowspan="2">Weekly Courses- all year round</th>
<th colspan="3">Course Content (h)</th>
<th colspan="2">Beijing Upgrades</th>
<th colspan="3">Locations</th>
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<th>Small Group</th>
<th>1-on-1 Classes</th>
<th>Culture Classes</th>
<th><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">Beijing Safari</span></span></th>
<th><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">Discover Beijing</span></span></th>
<th><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">Beijing</span></span></th>
<th><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">Tianjin</span></span></th>
<th><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">Chengde</span></span></th>
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<th>Small Group &amp; Individual</th>
<td>20</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>N/A</td>
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<th>Standard Individual</th>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
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<th>Intensive Individual</th>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
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<th>Individual &amp; Culture Classes</th>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
<td>✔</td>
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	<li><strong><strong>1-on-1 </strong></strong>- 60 minutes per class at LTL Sunshine 100 Campus, your home or preferred downtown location</li>
	<li><strong>Small Group - </strong>Maximum 6 students, 55 minutes per class at <strong>LTL </strong>Sunshine 100 Campus</li>
	<li><strong>Culture Classes - </strong>Each Culture Class lasts 60 minutes, and you may take different classes each week.</li>
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<h2>Upgrade options</h2>
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Beijing Safari teaches you Chinese by speaking it where it is spoken best: the streets of Beijing! Learn how to shop not by studying a textbook, but by going out and shopping. With Beijing Safari the best place to learn how to buy a subway card is not a classroom, but a subway station; how to understand a menu, a restaurant. You will be at all times accompanied by a certified Mandarin Teacher who not only knows where to go, but also the vocabulary you will need when you get there. The instructor will teach you necessary words in advance, take you to places where you can engage in conversations and then listen to you while you have them. Your teacher will help if necessary, but more importantly give you feedback on the spot. During your “cool down” session the teacher will also give you a detailed explanation about additional sentences that could have been used and what the words meant you did not understand.

<strong>How a session works:</strong>

1) First you “warm up” with your teacher, who will explain which situations will be practiced today and go through the vocabulary and sentence patterns needed.

2) The Safari starts, from buying blue trousers with a pair of socks at a shop to discussing rental prices with a property agent, according to your Mandarin level, increasing in complexity of vocabulary and sentence patterns used with each session. Live the Language has twenty different Safari Trips pre-prepared for you.

3) During your “cool down” session, your teacher reviews with you the additional vocabulary that has been learned and when, how and why misunderstandings might have occurred.

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	<li>Beijing Safari is a beginner course, best suited to level A1</li>
	<li>Beijing Safari is only available in Beijing</li>
	<li>Course includes 10 hr/wk of specialized 1-on-1 Chinese classes</li>
	<li>Maximum length of the course is 2 weeks</li>
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Immerse yourself in Chinese language and culture as you take your lessons out of the classroom and into some of China’s most famous historic attractions. Discover Beijing is an outdoor study Chinese program that lets you mingle with the locals as you learn. Your teacher will take you around the city for class, from the Temple of Earth to the Ancient University. You will not only see some of Beijing’s most famous sites, but studying amongst Chinese people will give you an immediate opportunity to practice your language skills.

Every day you will travel with your teacher from our school to a different outdoor location where your class will take place. At the end of class you may choose to either return to LtL Mandarin school with your teacher or stay out and continue to explore your surroundings. You will have plenty to talk about with your Host Family at the end of the day!

<strong>About Discover Beijing:</strong>

1) You will spend four hours per day one-on-one with your teacher, including Chinese study and travel to your destination.

2) This is an outdoor program. While Beijing has a dry climate and some of the least rainfall in all of China, in the rare occurrence that it rains your class will take place indoors instead.

3) Discover Beijing is a real life program and does not take place in a fully controlled classroom environment. This means that the flexibility to adapt to new situations ranging from unexpected Kong Fu lessons to sharing a table with a Chinese Bird Walker may be necessary.

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	<li>Discover Beijing is suitable for all levels, <strong>A1-C2</strong></li>
	<li>Discover Beijing is only available in Beijing</li>
	<li>Course includes 20 hr/wk of specialized 1-on-1 Chinese classes</li>
	<li>Maximum length of the course is 2 weeks</li>
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Discover Beijing is a 1-on-1 course upgrade. To book this course, please first choose a program that includes at least 20 hr/wk of individual classes. You may then upgrade those hours of class to Discover Beijing.

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Live the Language Mandarin School offers a variety of Chinese Culture Classes for beginners and fluent speakers alike. These are a fun way to improve your Mandarin skills and learn more about Chinese history and society. All Chinese Culture Classes are taught in Mandarin,giving you the opportunity to build upon your classroom study and practice speaking.

<strong><a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_2487.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="immersion2" alt="Great immersion options at LTL Mandarin school" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_2487-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>Tai Qi </strong><strong>太极拳</strong>: Founded in the 12<sup>th</sup> century by Taoist monk Zhang Sanfeng, Tai Qi has been used to treat stress and hi
gh blood pressure for centuries. Join the legions of Chinese who practice Tai Qi in parks all over the Middle Kingdom. LTL offers courses from beginner to advanced level teaching all five major styles from Yang to Sun.

<strong>Kung Fu</strong><strong>功夫</strong>: From Hong Kong action heroes to the PLA, Kung Fu refers to a variety of Chinese martial arts. Physically more challenging than Tai Qi, courses are available for all levels and different styles, with or without weapons.

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<strong>Chinese Cooking </strong><strong>做饭</strong>: Always wanted to know how the gong bao gets into the ji ding? Learn to prepare food Chinese family-style as LTL takes you on a culinary journey through different Chinese cooking traditions. Your teacher will not only provide the kitchen and ingredients, but also join you for dinner and conversation afterwards.

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<strong>Chinese Music: Er Hu </strong><strong>二胡</strong>: Learn how to master China’s quintessential classical instrument. A two-stringed bowed musical instrument played since the 10<sup>th</sup>century, Er Hu is today taught at all of China’s major musical schools. Offering classes from beginner to advanced level LTL will provide you with an Er Hu until you decide it is time to buy your own. A beginner can expect to play his/her first songs after the second lesson.

<strong>Mahjong </strong><strong>麻将</strong>: Lose a fortune and win it back in the same night. LTL Mahjong classes will teach you the tricks for peanuts before you try your hand at your local Mahjong parlor. A four-person game, three students learn and play together with one teacher.

<strong>Calligraphy </strong><strong>书法</strong>: Called Shodo in Japan and Seoye in Korea, Chinese calligraphy is one of the world’s oldest art forms. Learn how Chinese characters developed from tortoise shell carvings to today’s word processing. Your instructor will teach you about stylistic evolution from Jinwen to Kaishu and how to write Chinese worthy of an emperor.

<strong>Beijing Opera Mask Painting </strong><strong>脸谱</strong>: Beijing Opera is an art in many ways, but the parts that fascinate most viewers first are the elaborate costumes and painted masks. Learn why a hero’s masks are always red and what the color of a beard says about a character. You will learn the techniques and soon paint your own masks.

<strong>Paper Cutting </strong><strong>剪纸</strong>: While the days when a potential bride’s attractiveness depended on her paper cutting skills are gone, this ancient Chinese art form continues to be passed on from generation to generation. Our teacher will show you the patterns and skills she was taught by her mother, who learned it from her mother, with traditions reaching all the way back to the days of Empresses and forbidden romances in the Middle Kingdom.

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