the bilangual system, which also include other languages at different schools, compose of half a day of english and half a day of the languish of your choice. Usually, these schools are very academic oriented. There are also after school activities for their students and parents, such as chinese folk dance, painting etc. The schools are designated for different region of the cities and there are yellow school bus to help transportation. If you are out of the region(catching area), you have to provide your own transportation. The chinese-english bilangual schools are in high demand, and started from kindergarden to grade 6. after that, they can also take mandarine as a second language (instead of French) from grade 7 to grade 12. There is also mandarine (as a credit course) in University. Registration from the upcoming school year begins around Feb. of each year. To sign up for class after school started is also possible but only if there are vacancies.