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koreth -

Just got my admission letter from 辽宁师范大学 this afternoon. I'm going to be taking a
4-week class starting 7/15, then hopefully heading to North Korea for a few days if I can work out
the logistics, then down to Shanghai to visit a friend.

Anyone else going to Dalian to study this summer? Liaoning Normal or anywhere else?

I chose Dalian mostly because it sounds like a pretty pleasant place to spend a few weeks
studying, and there's not as much English everywhere as in Beijing.



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heymister -

Hello... I'm currently studying in Dalian at TLI (http://www.dltli.com/indexen.htm) and will be
here through mid-August. My reasoning for picking Dalian was pretty much the same as yours and
I've found that it definitely meets the criteria for having very few English speakers. The
foreigners around here are mostly Koreans, Japanese, and Russians. Even so, I see very few
foreigners on a day to day basis and it certainly does[ feel like I am in a foreign land - unlike
Beijing.

Still, if you're not careful you can easily spend your time at expat hangouts and not learn. But I
guess that's a possibility everywhere you go.

- Mike










koreth -

Cool! We should meet up and say hi, at least.

I'm hoping I have the self-discipline to avoid spending a lot of time at the expat hangouts,
though I'm sure I'll check a couple of them out just to see what they're like. The fact that I'm
there for a relatively short time will hopefully make that easier.

In addition to my classes, I'm going to be telecommuting part-time -- even though it's short, my
trip is much longer than the annual vacation time at my company -- so if you see me hanging out at
any English-speaking enclaves, feel free to tell me to either get back to work or go hang out at a
Chinese-speaking place instead.

How are you finding the local accent in Dalian? Do you mostly hear Dalianhua out on the street, or
is standard Mandarin more dominant?










Jamoldo -

I'll be at Liaoning Normal in a few weeks for the summer program...










koreth -

What level? (I'm guessing not "raw beginner" since you're posting from Beijing.) If you are in the
"more than beginner, less than advanced" camp like me, perhaps there will be two English speakers
in class rather than just one.

Actually I have no idea how they organize their class levels. I believe I'll get tested and placed
in what they consider an appropriate class, but no idea what that will actually mean. As long as
it's not "Here's a list of 10 chengyu, you have 5 minutes to memorize them and use them in a
spoken presentation," I should be happy.

Is this your first time at that school?










Jamoldo -

I'm guessing Intermediate since I've studied in Beijing for a year. Actually I'm currently back
home in the US now and will be back in Beijing next week (cutting it close).

I too have no idea how they are going to do it, we'll see I guess. My first time at Liaoning...
I'm looking forward to it. What are your fall plans?










koreth -

Unfortunately I have a full-time job back home -- one I like a lot, so no temptation to abandon it
-- which means my stay in China will be relatively short-lived. I'll be in Dalian for 4 weeks,
then taking a side trip to North Korea by way of Dandong (see the "North Korea from Dandong"
thread), then visiting a friend in Shanghai for a week or so. From an immersion point of view I'm
hoping ~5 weeks is enough time to bump my fluency up a bit, though obviously more would be better.

Are you going for the full six weeks?










Jamoldo -

Koreth, you're heading to DPRK? I'm jealous. Maybe we can go to Dandong together. I dont have the
money for DPRK, but I have a friend who has family in Dandong, so I've love to see them.

I'm going to go for 5 weeks or 6 weeks. I haven't decided yet. I have friends in Korea and Japan
and would like to check one of those places out before getting back into Beijing.










koreth -

You're welcome to come up to Dandong, but if you're going to be at LNU for 5 or 6 weeks, I suspect
the timing might not work out -- my NK tour starts on August 14, and I have to be up there a day
early so they can take care of my visa. My plan was to head up there on the 12th, book myself a
hotel for a couple nights, and spend the 13th seeing the sights in Dandong.










Jamoldo -

yeah no worries. I'll probably just go to Dandong for a weekend or something to hang out with my
friend. It's not far from Dalian apparently, no more than 5 hours by bus, which is something I can
definitely handle. I'll probably just go on a Friday afternoon after class or something.

Are they still charging Americans outrageous prices to go to DPRK? Last I checked (a few months
ago), they were charging quite a bit more than our foreign friends.












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