This blog was created to collect the experiences of all those who have felt cheated by the institution for the teaching of English Wall Street Institute (WSI now on). It is, for those not familiar, an English language school with institutions around the world that sells courses to be conducted at their institutions. Public in this blog the my experience, hopefully it is helpful, and servant of teaching, all colors will be contacted (and there are many) from phones to the institute to get caught up in their gear without a way out.
My experience begins at the end of 2005, when they are approached by a "agent" for the promotion of an English course. At the time I was interested in what was considered useful for a study of English for my work in the intention to use their course in order to interact actively with a teacher in the flesh and improve my knowledge (limited) language. I am getting the chance to make a conversation but I can not explain in detail the manner in which the course takes place . I discover only after an initial "trial lesson" (I wonder why not make the first have signed the contract ). Now I learn that their method is based primarily on the use of a hateful , boring, repetitive and unbearable laboratory in which you are forced to listen through headphones for hours a computer and sends repeated phrases cartoons. A sort of "De Agostini" Jumbo size, the cost of various courses, however, De Agostini complete (namely € 2700 in "installments" of 150 for a year and a half). And here we come to the point: the purchase contract of the course is in essence a contract that does not allow you second thoughts, that you have no right to withdraw , in the case where, I was unable or did not want more semlicemente such a course. This is because the purchase agreement of the course is concluded by a financial paying the entire cost of the school year and that has no right of withdrawal. You signed a loan agreement in the end, WSI has already taken the money, not pay a monthly fee to the school , and then you can not back out! The alleged guarantees are offered about the study method and the results are laughable simply have to. Now you unmount it piece by piece the "strong points" on which the "method" of WSI:
Natural : if it is natural for you be forced to at least 3 hours of headphones before you can see a teacher in the flesh ... then we can define the method WSI a natural method (not birth control!)
Effective : effectiveness depends on how much and how can you see a teacher or how many hours can you resist with the headset on his head? Why teachers are not available then as they say ...
Funny: you think is fun to spend hours listening to a headset? If it is for you then ... Certainly there are social activities and the encounter with the teachers but if you have little time, and not much flexibility, then one is condemned only the activity of laboratory and see the teachers when they can, not when you can and you want it. The frequency of meetings can not be changed , then an hour's interview with the teacher every three hours, minimum, listening with headphones. If you can not attend more than two hours a week (but how many can they?) then this means no more than see a tutor twice a month . And all this all'economicissimo price € 150 per month x 18 months ?
Safe: certainly there is only one thing, the money that you subtract from the regular financial bank account. The safety verification takes place in sessions often crowded, and they do not have any interest to certify that you do not progress. I've seen people start from lower levels to run a meeting with my teacher at the same level (departure) that they knew much, much younger than me ... What does this mean? That the levels achieved by studying, in reality, no such ... It is enough.
In a nutshell: do not sign any contract with the Wall Street Institute!
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