What should I consider if it is my first time to learn online?

[Bruce Lee]

Online Learning, especially Real Time Online Class, is a revolution for
Chinese education in the world.

As we know, most of excellent Chinese teachers are in Beijing of China.
According to immigration and visa policy of USA, Canada, Australia,
Europe, etc for China, Chinese People with subjects of Computer,
Engineering, Nursing, Electronic, etc are welcome for most of countries
in the world. Chinese People with subject of Chinese Language and
Chinese literature are very difficult to get visa to go abroad. So by
now, most of Chinese teachers outside China got visa as family member
of Main applicants, for examples, as wife, husband or children. So
generally local Chinese schools outside China are very small.

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