If you are interested in asian countries, china is with 1.3 Billion Chinese people the most important country. But only in some major hotels and cities you can communicate using english language. If you want to travel through china by yourself, study kung fu in a shaolin wushu school, go to university or work in business with chinese people, basics of chinese language are very helpful.

Mandarin is a family of related languages spoken across most of northern and southwestern Mainland China. The Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing (Peking) functions as the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China (Standard Chinese or Putonghua), the official language of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (Guoyu), and one of the official languages of Singapore.

Due to many requests of learning chinese language we offer you in cooperation with International Xiao Long Training Center this program:

Travel date

There are NO specific travel dates, so you can arrive whenever you want. Short-term arrival is possible too. So you are able to integrate your chinese language program to your china sightseeing tour like visiting the Great Wall in Beijing, the Summer palast, the Temple of Heaven, the Longmen Grottos in Luoyang or the Terracotta armee in Xi'an (Here you will find some fantastic videos of sightseeing tours).

Programs

Every student has his own idea of staying in china, so the International Xiao Long Training Center offers three different programs:

1. Fulltime learning chinese language

2. Half day learning chinese language, half day learning shaolin kung fu (tai chi or sanda is possible too)

3. Fulltime learning shaolin kung fu + 2 hours every week learning chinese language. More information you will find here.

It will be a good idea, before you will start learning shaolin kung fu/Tai Chi, travelling through china or start business to learn basics of chinese language.

Services and prices

Optional without costs

Costs of all above services are 440 US$ / month (Additional 20 US$ chinese language teaching material).

Optional with additional costs

Procedure: When you are sure participating to china language programs, please send us the following information of you :

Please send us your personal information using our contact form or send an email to:

If we get ALL information we will give you the email address of the master trainer of International Kung Fu Training Center. You can ask your questions and give him your arrival date, time and flight number in Zhengzhou. At Zhengzhou airport the school bus will pick you up and bring you to International Kung Fu Training Center. There you will book your accomodation, training and food and next day you will start your shaolin kung fu/Tai Chi/Sanda training. It's very easy.

Notes: The booking can only be done in International Kung Fu Training Center in china. This website only offer some information, but we have nothing to do with booking, accomodation, training, food, services and so on. We don't assume any liability. For those, who will stay less than 3 months, you'll have to pay the school fee at arrival in International Kung Fu Training Center, if you will stay for a longer time, you'll have to pay for the next 3 months in advance.

Notes to payment in China:In many banks (e.g. bank of china or China construction bank) you will get money with your ec-card or credit card. The fee will be approx. 4,50 EUR, with credit cards approx. 3%. Of course payment in school with EUR or US$ is possible too. You can also use traveller cheques. If you will stay for a longer period of time and paid money to the school, the International Kung Fu Training Center will give you back your money for all not used months. In all other schools this isn't possible!

If you have any question, please send us an email or post at our Forum.

Your own services

Tip: Please take a look to our Forum, there you will find some tips about cheap flights to Beijing.

Total costs

On the whole the Total Costs depend on the cost of flight to Beijing and the time of stay. In the next example we will show the costs for a 4-week chinese language program in china.

4-weeks (!!!) learning chinese up to 1329 US$ incl. Visiting Shaolin Temple and Zhongyue Miao Temple!

Chinese language program

Chinese language classes integrate all aspects of Mandarin Chinese including reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, phonetics and vocabulary. Accelerated teaching methods allow participants at lower proficiency levels to acquire the language skills needed for effective communication in a short period of time.

You have the chance to practice everyday chinese (because you live in a chinese school and have to practice chinese every day!) and will study chinese culture, society, chinese life and history.

Training materials are in english and chinese language.

Classwork using everyday topics and interactive teaching methods ensure that participants achieve the goals of each proficiency level and progress rapidly.

Level 1: The candidate has acquired the basic (low) Chinese competence. The candidate is able to understand simple sentences and express simple ideas and capable of simple communication in his or her daily life and study. A Chinese learner who has mastered about 600 common Chinese characters and the corresponding grammar can reach this standard.

Level 2: The candidate has acquired the basic (middle) Chinese competence that can meet the demand of basic daily life, a certain range of social communication and study to some degree.

Level 3: The candidate has acquired the basic (higher) Chinese competence and can fulfill the minimal requirements in Chinese proficiency to be admitted to study in Science, Engineering, Agriculture, and West Medicine in Chinese universities for a Bachelors Degree.

The time depends on the time of year so they could vary.

Full day learning chinese language

Half day learning chinese language, half day shaolin kung fu/tai chi/sanda training

Impressions

Here are some impressions from china.

Foreign students in china

Living with chinese

Finding friends

Happy birthday

Learning chinese cooking

Chinese Buddhism

Sightseeing

Foreign students visited Kaifeng

Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Qui training

More information about International Kung Fu Training Center

Here you'll find more information about International Kung Fu Training Center and here are some impressions of International Kung Fu Training Center.

You will find the new designed website of International Kung Fu Training Center at www.shaolinkft.com.

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