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BLCU Accommodation: Scholarship Students

Due to the high demand from my BLCU Dorm Accommodation post, I thought it best to make another post in hopes of answering questions regarding accommodation for scholarship students going to BLCU.

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5 Quick Questions About Going To BLCU

As you know, I get emailed about BLCU and my experience in Beijing, so I thought I’ld share my answers to these questions a reader emailed me just in case other people are also curious (seems very likely). more…

BLCU Accommodation Rates

Since I seem to get a lot of questions about the cost of accommodation at BLCU, I decided to make a post here. The rates at BLCU vary depending on which dorm you settle with and how long you plan to stay. Obviously the longer you stay the cheaper the rate, and the nicer the dorm the higher the rate.

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Short Term Vs Long Term

To be quite honest I don’t think there’s much difference between the Long Term or the Short Term courses at BLCU. It’s hard to know for sure because I can only compare with what others have told me… But I can still remember thinking to myself: “I wish I was doing a short term course instead!” everytime I heard about the many activities the short term students had.

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Worth going to BLCU?

I’ve received quite a few emails from readers about BLCU (Beijing Language and Culture University), and many people ask me about my exchange experience in Beijing… And then I got an email asking: “Was it worth it?” It wasn’t the first time, so I fell right into my automated response talking through rose-coloured glasses. But whilst writing a response, I had to stop when I realised that I wasn’t being objective enough.

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Language Partners and Tutors

A very common and useful way of improving your spoken Chinese (汉语) is to have a language partner (also known as tandem partner) or a private tutor. I only thought about language partners when I was studying at BLCU because that seemed to be the norm, but language partners can actually be really good if you can find the right one.

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