Over the past years, I’ve visited many language schools and interacted with their principals, staff and teachers, and it strikes me that each language school has a different feel to it, sort of like a culture on its own.
Some schools feel like a family, with most of their staff members working for the school over many years and close connections between the students and school staff. Other, mostly larger schools, have a different feel based on the student crowd they attract. What age are the students, and what are they there for? Are they learning for fun or is there a direct need for them to get fluent in the language?
These ‘unseen parts’ of the school are very important when choosing your language school. But how can you find out? If you have a friend taking a course at a school, you can ask your friend what it’s like. But that isn’t always the case, and in any case, it’s just one person’s point of view.
This is why we are gathering as many course reviews on yago.sg as possible. One review can only tell so much, but if you find review after review saying that the staff of a certain school are really caring, chances are that you will experience the same when you join the school.
So before you join a language course, check out what other people have to say about the course you are planning to join. Here are some of our most reviewed language schools.
Have you attended language lessons yourself? Help us make Yago a better resource by adding your review. If you do so before 9 September 2011, you will also enter our draw and stand to win an iPad 2!
For a step-by-step guide on adding the review, check out this page!
