To get to the foreign students office walk through the entrance until a building is in front of you. This is the Affiliated Clinic. Then, make a right and you’ll soon see this building…
Notice that the block number is circled in the picture. That’s block #5. The foreign student’s office is on the 6th floor.
There’s [...]
And this is a hotel where foreigners get to stay in if they take short courses etc. It’s called Jinxing Lou 金兴楼 [jin1xing4lou2]. You can also eat lunch and dinner at the restaurant here. There are two blocks, the A and B block. The A block houses most guests, while the B block is where [...]
For students of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, this is the alternative to canteen food!
How to get there:
If you’re coming down from the University Hotel it is on your right.
The inside is pretty spartan, but looks clean enough… There’s even a room for a big group.
Food to order? Just point [...]
Canteen food?
You’ll be surprised. Quite a bunch of foreigners can be found here during lunch time.
You’ll see many students lining up to order food. It’s simple, just point to what you want. Then the person behind the counter will tell you how much to pay them. One meal may range from 7-13 kuai, unless [...]
Where do you eat?
First of all, there is the canteen aka 食堂 [shi2tang2].
Then, there is the Dream Butterfly Restaurant.
And then, there’s the wider world out there. Check this page for a brief infroduction.
And for places nearby where grub is dub…
KFC? (just opposite the main gate to the building.)
Korean food on the road parallel to Hanzhong [...]
This is the sino-american school that has many students with a pretty good level of chinese. Check out their official website for more. Great program that’s super-grueling I hear, and the students in the program appear to be from the stella cast.
Dictionaries:
dict.cn (very useful)
nciku.com (even more useful)
popupchinese.com (another alternative)
zhongwen.com
MDBG Dictionary
Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary (Traditional Script)
Translators:
Google Translate
Babel Fish
Tools:
Chinese Pod
Sinosplice Language Resources
Hanyu.com.cn
One a day Chinese Idioms
Not too far away from Nanjing Normal University. Alot of students learning Chinese here too. This school is second in China for Water Works Engineering.
Those from Hohai, please feel free to provide more information for others to know.
Nanjing Normal University is also called Nanshida 南师大 [nan2shi4da4]. It’s located along Ninghai Road 宁海路 [ning2hai3lu4] close to the junction with Hankou West Road 汉口西路 [han4kou3xi1lu4]. Mcdonald’s is very close by and is a prominent landmark.
If you’ve not been to this university, do check it out! You feel the calm walking amidst archaic structures [...]