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Name: Susanne Risch 4 weeks in Shanghai Intensive Chinese language course     Q: How are you finding your studies in China? A: My studies in Shanghai have been the perfect introduction of the Mandarin language and a great opportunity to get at least a first insight in the Chinese way of living. Besides I […]

 Coman Mihaela Alcmena 4 weeks in Shanghai Intensive Mandarin course       Q: How are you finding your studies in China? A: I think that being in China helps me learn Mandarin much faster than if I would try to learn it in my own country. It’s not an easy language to learn; therefore it […]

Rodolfo Cavalcanti 4 weeks Chinese language course Intensive course in Beijing Studying Chinese in Beijing was wonderful!!! I liked it very much, especially the people that I met at the Chinese language school in Beijing. At all times the teachers, employees and students were kind, friendly and willing to help me in my studies. My class […]

Two weeks. German and Hiking in Kitzbuhel. I fell for Kitzbuhel on sight, there are only two main streets but they are made up of medieval houses, lovely mountain cabins mixed in with pastel-colour burgher houses, so clean, so tidy and so neatly set in the Tyrolean landscape. The population jumps to some 20,000 during […]

Stephanie Shaw 3 weeks Standard course in Nice   The best surprise for me was that the CESA staff seemed to be so knowledgeable and asked plenty of questions to help me properly consider where I wanted to go and what course would best suit me!  A great start to what proved to be a […]

Miss Baker 3 weeks French course in Aix Linguistically I had taken other language courses abroad with CESA from beginner’s level so I had an idea of what to expect, I knew roughly the level of French I could expect to reach after 3 weeks which was simple conversational French. For me all my expectations […]

 Mary 2 weeks in Montpellier Standard Course “I expected a pleasant atmosphere with friendly and motivated staff and students. I had never done anything like this before, so didn’t know what to expect in the lessons. I wasn’t sure if there would be homework or how much written work there would be. I knew there […]

Kate French Combined Course One week duration “I thought it was going to be really hard to understand what was going on, I was unsure how the teachers would be able to teach grammar if they only spoke French. I was pretty unsure it wouldn’t make a huge amount of difference to my French. Actually, […]

Mr Sampson French A level Revision Easter Course in Nice  I wanted to speak tons of French and really get to grips with colloquialisms and idiosyncrasies etc. The French A level course in Nice worked well in fact it was better than my French tuition in the UK as it was conducted 100% in French – […]

I expected that I would be thrown in at the deep end as it was a Spanish immersion course and I know no Spanish at all. I thought that the other people on the course were likely to be young people travelling in South America. The Spanish language course in Santiago was brilliant and met […]