Close

Elisha Angleterre

« I found LTL Taiwan online, basically Google searched what was available in Taipei.

The reason I chose LTL was based on schedule. It was the only place offering evening courses and for 2 days a week, as well as full time courses. 

My teacher was Peinie. She was great. We did a lot of things and it kept the class fresh.

The first two months we spent the first part of class doing Pinyin practice and pronunciation, then having her say words and me transcribing.

The remainder of my course we worked from textbooks or additional worksheets the teacher created.

Overall I did lots of things, in and outside of the classroom and really enjoyed it. She’s a really good teacher. She’s been really good at understanding that I work full time.

In terms of what to improve? Honestly, nothing.

Everything’s been really good. No problems at all. Thanks LTL. »

Close

Sammy États-Unis

« I originally found out about LTL from a friend of a friend. She was also studying Chinese in my college and she said she’d heard about LTL, and told me it is a place that I could make fast progress over the summer.

I looked at some other options too, but LTL looked the most inviting and the flexible schedule meant that it lined up better with my summer plans.

This is my first time in Taiwan. I’ve been to mainland China before, I went on a trip with my high school for 3 weeks, so I didn’t really feel surprised or experience much culture shock when I arrived here. My time here went very smoothly.

I took a combination of group and individual classes. For my group classes, Jasse and Eden were my teachers. For 1-on-1 I had Will for 3 weeks and Peinie for 2 weeks. 4 hours of group class per day sometimes felt quite long but I really liked the classes overall.

Jasse’s style was great, she was able to transition us into reading Chinese characters really well. She prepared powerpoint presentations with characters slowly moving and pinyin appearing, so we slowly learned to read characters. She also kept things light and entertaining with games.

One thing I really liked about Willy’s classes was going through the stuff we learned the day before at a quicker pace for the 30 minutes. I really appreciated this part, because it helped me to focus more and orient myself about what we are going to do for the rest of the class.

When reading through the new vocabulary, Eden had us make sentences to help practice our speaking.

She encouraged us to make longer sentences and use more grammar that we weren’t sure of. Peinie was also really good in that she helped me get through to the end of the book.

I really enjoyed the students events each week, like the visit to the night market.

I really enjoyed staying in Taipei. The MRT is really reliable which makes it easy to get around. Overall I really liked the city.

I’m definitely planning to continue studying Chinese at college in the US, but maybe I’ll come back to Taiwan/China too. »

Close

Nuttanicha Thaïlande

« My name is Nuttanicha and I am from Thailand.

I came to learn Chinese for four weeks at LTL Taiwan taking small group classes and also individual classes.

I found LTL online and the LTL website seemed established.

I liked the fact there were lots of videos and photos of the students and the school so I decided to come here!

Chinese Class in Taiwan

I had five teachers overall, 3 for my groups and 2 for individual classes.

I really never expected they would be so accommodating, they even joined the students for lunch which was great.

The teachers all have their own style, but they are really all very good. They listen to your questions and always give helpful feedback.

Taipei was also great. The subway was really easy to use and get around. My parents were a bit worried about me getting to school but it was easy and it’s a really safe and relaxed place to be.

I plan to come back to LTL and would like to try out the Shanghai school. »

Close

Aiden Australie

« I found LTL Taipei by googling for classes in Taipei. LTL stood out because of weekend courses, which no one else offered.

I would advise future students to start learning characters as early as you can. This is hugely useful and LTL helped me with this.

Taipei is a really cool city. I’d advise visiting the night markets and walk everywhere you can. There’s so much hidden on the backstreets.

I’m really enjoying Taipei. I work till 20:30 every day, so that’s hard, but weekends are important for me, which is why I do all the classes and go to meet-ups.

Classes at LTL

My teacher was Peinie. I had two other students in my class, one Australian, one French.

We had similar levels, but different backgrounds.

The level of the books does quite well for us. We usually spend 0.5-1hr of each class talking and asking questions about life here along with some outside assignments, recordings and practice.

It’s working really well. Each week has been progressively better and we’re making good progress. We study in a local style. I’m very satisfied with the whole experience. »