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Originally Posted by Nathan
Although it did get me over to Japan for a few years, I believe the entire eikaiwa industry itself is a sham. Lack of qualified teachers, lack of actual educational material, etc.
From my brief experience, most of the people who took eikaiwa (and only eikaiwa) classes did not improve their ability, or their improvement was marginal. They would have been much better off taking a course from an actual certified instructor.
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100% agree, and I also used Eikaiwa to get over there. I moved over to ALT after that, where I felt I made a much bigger impact as I was in charge of what was getting taught. I worked for a certain British English school that will be unnamed, and they were simply awful. Though, I met my wife there. Yes that is right...I am a teacher who pulled one of his students, but for the record...her course was finished, so it was kosher! Hehe.
