If you're flying your kids to Taiwan for the summer specifically to work on their Mandarin, this is the institutional heavyweight. The camp is run by National Taiwan Normal University's Mandarin Training Center, the same institution that has been teaching Chinese as a second language since 1956 and trains adult learners from over 80 countries. The kids' summer camp packages that machinery into three-week sessions: Mandarin classes, cultural courses, and field trips around Taiwan.
Sessions split by age into a 7–14 track and a 15–17 track, so your teenager isn't doing crafts with seven-year-olds. Three sessions ran in 2026 (late June through late August), and you can think of each as roughly a school term's worth of language exposure compressed into three weeks of full days.
The catch is the calendar. Applications for summer 2026 opened January 6 at 10:00 AM, session availability was already being updated by April, and registration closed entirely on May 22. Families who started looking in spring missed it. This is a winter decision.
Registration
Registration for 2026 opened January 6 and closed May 22. If this camp is on your list for next summer, the window to act is January–March, not April–May. This is exactly the kind of camp the alert below exists for.
We track when every camp on this site opens registration. Drop your email and we'll ping you when NTNU Mandarin Summer Camp opens for the next season, before the popular sessions fill.
One email when registration opens. That's it.
Good to know
Three 3-week sessions in 2026: Jun 22–Jul 10, Jul 13–31, and Aug 3–21.
Two age tracks: 7–14 and 15–17. The teen track is one of the few serious inbound options for high schoolers.
It's a day program, you'll need to sort accommodation separately, which for overseas families usually means staying with relatives or booking a serviced apartment nearby.
Tuition isn't published on the camp pages; budget at university-program levels and confirm directly when applications open.
NTNU runs a second, separate kids' Mandarin camp through its continuing-education arm, see NTNU Little Mandarin Masters. Same university, different program and different division. Worth comparing both before you choose.