NTNU MTC 2 week express program

[davidlivsey]

Has anyone ever heard of or had any experiences with this program? I think it's pretty new as I've googled it and searched here but to no avail...

I would preferably go for the regular MTC summer course but unfortunately the dates don't suit me. It's actually pretty pricey... around NT $23,600 for a mere 18 hours of Mandarin classes, 6 hours of "culture" classes and then some excursions etc. Compare that to NT $16,800 for MTC's regular two month summer-session, which gives you 10 hours of Mandarin a week for 8 weeks...

Link to the website: http://chinese.mtc.ntnu.edu.tw:8080/TwoWeekExpress/

Any info would be appreciated,

cheers

[Feiren]

I don't know anything about it, but I think that's a total rip off. You are in effect paying NT$1,600 an hour ( ) for a class with 6-10 people in it. The cultural stuff and excursions will be a complete waste of time, so I'm not counting them in.

You can pay a good private teacher NT$400 an hour for one on one classes. You should be able to rent space for two in a study center like this one for less than NT$100/hour.

http://www.stskbook.com.tw/consume.php

Has anyone ever heard of or had any experiences with this program? I think it's pretty new as I've googled it and searched here but to no avail...

I would preferably go for the regular MTC summer course but unfortunately the dates don't suit me. It's actually pretty pricey... around NT $23,600 for a mere 18 hours of Mandarin classes, 6 hours of "culture" classes and then some excursions etc. Compare that to NT $16,800 for MTC's regular two month summer-session, which gives you 10 hours of Mandarin a week for 8 weeks...

Link to the website: http://chinese.mtc.ntnu.edu.tw:8080/TwoWeekExpress/

Any info would be appreciated,

cheers

[Icon]

Is this anything new? Sounds a lot like the famous "Love Boat" program for Overseas Chinese.

[ironlady]

Geez, I do CI-based one-on-one for NT$1000 an hour and you're actually able to use Chinese when you come out the other side after 18 hours. No cutesie culture classes, though. How much of that MTC figure is markup, given what the teachers actually earn?

It's about time these language centers figure out there's demand for short-term courses, though.