PWEI: gazzaroon: Berlitz pay pathetic wages - yes and no Berlitz pay pathetic wages and when you consider the stupidly high prices they charge, those wages are simply a rip off. gazzaroon: Berlitz use a completely discredited methodology - don't agree. Discredited in the eyes of anybody other than greedy lazy school owners. Next you'll be telling us that Callan is a good method! gazzaroon: I do know that teachers are not allowed to use Polish even if they are Polish leading to the belief that they are, in fact natives, even though they are not when going to a client. I know Poles who used to teach at Berlitz who were instructed to tell clients that they were not Polish. gazzaroon: some quality teachers who actually have knowledge of English and have lived in either America or the UK Wow: they have knowledge of English and lived in an English speaking country?! Stunning. I note, however, that you haven't got a word to say about their knowledge of how to teach, how to explain the language or any tiny little things like that.
For reasons beyond my understanding you seem to have issues with Berlitz for some reason and that is your right. However, schools in different cities have different performances even though they are connected to a particular group, just as in other businesses. The teachers in Berlitz Wroclaw are both competent and effective teachers who see real results, demand results from their students and have an interest in their progress and achieving the students goals. However, the Berlitz method has it's limitations, as does the Callan Method. I personally believe to learn a language you have to do the correct research and find the method that suits you as a person. For some, the Berlitz and callan methods work. For others, the more traditional method works. Each of us learn in different ways and we shouldn't knock nor decry tried and trusted methods that have seen many people successfully master a foreign language, whether we think it's good or not.
Personally, I don't knock any method of learning English or a foreign language as long as the student is learning and making effective progress and feels such.
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