Advanced heritage-speaker looking for intensive class recs

I speak at the Advanced-Mid level but I haven’t studied reading and writing for ~10 years, but I used to be able to read & write well after 9 years of Chinese Sunday school 😫 I’m looking to do an intensive spring semester after working in Sichuan for a year and studying abroad in Shanghai on US-Sino finance & trade a few years ago. I welcome recommendations here or PM! I’m looking to go from HSK 2ish to at least HSK 4 within a semester as it’s mostly re-learning and possibly considering private tutor/summer class to go to HSK 5.

Ambitious, I know, but this would be my 5th intensive immersion program in a 3rd language so I’m looking specifically for: - teachers accustomed to teaching foreigners in more hands-on, creative ways, though I know drills & rote memorization are core to Chinese learning - 10-20 person class size, 4-6 hours/day, 5-6 days a week - Curriculum balances HSK prep with real life application, ex. Practice questions one lesson while another lesson is on office vocab - Waiban office willing to sign off on legal part time work on the X2 visa (with employer and Chengdu city gov approval too) - School assistance in finding affordable nearby apartments. Don’t want to live on campus Bonus if there’s a specialized heritage-speaker class that focuses on (re)building literacy while moving students away from pinyin /oral reliance

thanks in advance!

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