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[misutabiru]

I am looking for a good place to study Chinese in Wuhan this summer. Last summer I did a six-week program at CCNU for about 350 USD. The teacher was really good, but I was the only student in the program. This summer I am hoping to find someplace that has slightly larger class sizes.

Any recommendations?

[NorbertRadd]

Why not find 7 other classmates and, pool your resources, and meet 5 times a week for 80 minutes a day? If you worked the numbers, you could get a better class at 85% savings and it'd be a better deal for the teacher also, classic win-win.
I'm doing the 40 lessons for Chinese course and book 2 is all Chinese so I had to step backwards and review all my Chinese. Book 1 has 700 characters and I had only half learned 400 before coming here.
Also, you could just do the class with everyone doing 10 sentences a day about one topic and everyone reading them at the beginning of class. That might make your whole class with the vocabulary discussion.
Good luck.

P.S. Does VOX rock on?

[misutabiru]

excellent idea, Norbert. I actually know a really good teacher if anyone is interested.

any takers?

p.s. yes, VOX rocks on. hard.

[NorbertRadd]

Hi again.
I am trying to learn Chinese as hard as I can so I have empathy for you.
I heard that there are Mandarin programs at several schools in Wuhan so maybe there are bulletin boards that you could post notices for a "study group".
If you use a good text, it may very likely be as good as any teacher. Interaction's necessary and you need more than what you just get on the street.
Possibly you could just trying learning characters.
See here:
http://zhongwen.com/mao.htm
There's a list of the 2,000 most common characters under "character frequency". Most Chinese teachers just want to teach characters because it's hardwired into them since childhood.
I googled "Wuhan expats" with no success. Cheers.

p.s. A secondary mission of mine is to get back to VOX while I'm still up here.