This is My first school in Berlin, literally. I spent about 8 months here. It took me awhile, but…read morefinally found the time to write a review for this.
The first six months was the Integration course plus orientation course. At the beginning 1-2 months was the difficult, it not only about the study, also about adjusting the new language and teaching style here. it does make people quite frustrating. Well, Every beginning is difficult though. My teacher since the the beginning to the whole course end, never really spoke other languages but German. Which is good. it was difficult to understand at the beginning, but it does help me to improve my listening and speaking so much faster. I remember i was really angry couple times about the school, the classmate or the teaching method. but I do find my way and get used to the way how thing works there. Even we got the substitute teacher sometime, my main teacher was good. I considered myself quite lucky. In the end, I actually have a really good time and all my friends here was really surprise how my german could improve so much is such a short time.
Something I have to say it, I also have some good friends their job are teaching. I do know how much to difficult to teaching an adult than a kid. Most of the time adult has too much pride and too rely on the teacher. As a student should find the way in balance, see what is the really important thing, and made the right call. Of course, The teacher is also the problem. sometime when the methods really doesn't fit you, better just switch to others, instead of waiting.
One other thing i have to mention from my own experience. Most of the students come here just for study, but it doesn't mean everyone will be nice and open minded. Some of them bring their own discrimination to this country and bully other students. This school is really stand up for students that who bully and prejudiced. They really care about this. Some schools even they noticed the problem will simply ignore it. For me, beside teachers and students, also the school environment is a really important part of the study.
The last two month, I took the B2 lever class. Went to different class. It was really different. The atmosphere is not as good as before. And I also met one teacher really arrogant and like mocking mistakes of students. Maybe it wasn't suppose to mean that way, but it does made me feel like this. I didn't like the methods of that teacher so i did switch my class and found the teacher with the methods that fit me better.
The thing is I think most the schools are the same. There are good teachers or bad teachers, just like people, they are also different, people got different definitions about good and bad. It really hard to just judge something through reading. After all, it's really depend on what kind of school you looking for. For me, although the price of the school is not really cheap, there are still some parts that I like about in this school. which I don't think other schools might have the same.
