Have you ever attend any courses for English study?
By meibugou
@meibugou (12)
China
February 3, 2009 11:26pm CST
Yesterday, I visited the WALLSTEET ENGLISH CENTER. Because they invited me to join in their 30 minutes course for free. But when I got there, there was not any course for me. After I fill out a table, I was leaded to a small room by a young lady. She made the conversation full of persuading me to join in and asking me many private questions. Once I asked some details about the courses, she turned to be very unpatient and made me feel like an idiot. She tested my English level by a short talk in English, then she made a study plan for me: It would cost 37500RMB to get 7 levels study. Due to their deceptive promoting ways, the young lady's bad reception and the high fee, I left there finally.
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7 responses
@smooch091784 (973)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
Since I started English was already part of every subjects and co-curricular activities. I didn't attend English course or anything that I know of. I'm glad that I've been to schools that teach good English and especially the teachers. I never forget when I was in 5th grade when me and my classmates were taught to spell difficult words like, "eau de toilette" (pronouced as yu-de-twalah) "Schizophrenia" and a lot more, imagine 11 year old asked to spell these words. Lol We were taught to do a lot of readings too at every 1 period once a week. My schools had taught their students good quality education and English was also a priority. And I'm very thankful for that. Taking a course in English would be an advantage though for additional learning. I thank also the English books and Mtv for making good in my English skills. 
@smooch091784 (973)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
Haha.. Alright, I seriously wanted to rephrase this cause I see missing words and wrong prepositions... Bear with me when I tend to this, cause when I do, it is when the time I talk to my students. I do two things at the same time which sometimes I fail to get the right words. It can be hard at times.... 
@garfield_zhou (530)
• China
4 Feb 09
37500RMB????!!!! What kind of course they could offer to be fit for that price? Why don't they go straight to rob a bank instead. I heard WALLSTEET ENGLISH CENTER before, maybe it has gained some fame in the field of English training. Yet the price they asked is crazy. I had planed to join a class about IELTS recently, any suggestion? my buddy.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
4 Feb 09
[i]ohh...that is not good! Maybe they are just telling lies just to get people to come there and whom they will invite for whatever transactions they have?
I have not attended any of those. I am even planning to search for any affordable and short course in studying Spanish this time![/i]
@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
17 Feb 09
Hello meibugou! Well, in college my major is English. I graduated as Bachelor in Elementary Education major in English. I know mine is not enough so I planned to develop my learnings more.
@meibugou (12)
• China
4 Feb 09
I have attended a english course last year. All teachers in the school came from US and Europe. They like China and want to know more of China. My teacher Pat gave me an interview at begining of the class. I was given a junior level. The effect for me was not good. First, my work was very busy and i often had business trip, so I only attended about half of the courses. Second,i thick i did not find the right way of how to study english. Till now i still have not find a very good way. Could you please share with me your study methods?
@garfield_zhou (530)
• China
4 Feb 09
I don't think your English is bad at all from your writing. As to the class you attened, I wonder if we could join a class together.
@vidhi169 (108)
• India
15 Nov 11
No i never attended any course. I am just following a website which really helps me to improve my English, and here i would like to share that website with you.
http://www.englishspeaking.in
Hope you will also like the website.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
4 Feb 09
Lucky you did not join otherwise you could have been cheated of your money. I never attended any english courses except when I was in school as it is one of the subject that is compulsory to learn. All you need to do to improved your english is to read lots of english books and have daily conversation in English. This will improve your proficiency of the language. Being in mylot is an advantage as it gives you confidence in your written communication. You'll be surprise how your english improve when you are active participating here.
