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Sophie Anderson, a junior at Western Washington University, spent five weeks in Beijing this summer. She was frustrated to realize how difficult it was to actually find an immersion experience.

We are a British/Russian couple living in Beijing, China, studying Chinese at LTL Mandarin School. Our daily life as foreigners in Beijing has been fascinating. Chinese is a challenging language to ...

Basic Chinese at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, Calif., is a 63-week course. But spending a semester in the Beijing Language and Culture University's short-term, ...