Great for any ability level, including heritage speakers!

I am a heritage student - my parents are Chinese and I grew up with Mandarin in my household, and did a bit of formal classes here and there. I've been relearning Chinese as an adult through various online tutoring services and self studying, but felt like my Chinese stagnated recently and wasn't improving much.

I did the immersion program at CLI and really loved it. I felt that it helped me breakthrough a bit of the bottleneck I've been feeling with learning Chinese lately. The 1:1 classes are very tailored to your ability and interests and felt like the perfect level, which can be hard to find for a heritage student (since my listening ability is quite high, speaking ability is OK, and reading and writing is very elementary). The teachers here are GREAT and are way better than any teachers I found online myself through other platforms.

Lunch at the school was amazing, very healthy and delicious!

There are a lot of other students who may be speaking English, but you can definitely choose how immersive you want the experience to be, by choosing to live at a homestay or choosing to socialize more with the teachers/interns. If you want to completely be immersed, I highly recommend doing the homestay! I really loved the family I stayed with and getting to eat meals with them everyday. I chose to speak very little English while I was there, and felt like my Chinese improved a lot.