If you are Asian / Colored ...
If you are not proficient in English / talkative ...
If your / your family's money are earned hardly ...
If you really want to learn German / concentrate on your studies on German to get a better future ...
If you have a good impression in Germany ...
*** PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT GO TO GOETHE INSTITUT ***
! Count on GI, fall into traps!
I learn here for six months, the teachers, staffs, courses, apartments, administration and everything are "terrible". I always... weiterlesen
feel that staying at home, using a free App is also more meaningful than studying in Goethe Institut.
(Unfortunately, the lowest rating is one star, I originally want to rate negative five stars)
The most ridiculous thing is that when they think you can not speak in English, they will speak English and make use of "misunderstanding" as an excuse. When they know you speak English, they will start the conversation in German resulting in generating more misunderstandings.
Moreover when you are alone in a foreign land and need to face a serious of problems regarding GI, GI has not only never solve the problem effectively and directly, but spend the time and thoughts on useless things. In my opinion, instead of employing time and thoughts to fool students (customers), why don't GI spend time and thoughts to make students having more progress in German?
The reasons I can recommend GI will make you:
1) More patient and good-tempered. You can fully understand what is "Nothing is impossible - because there is not the worst, only worse"
2) Having awareness of crisis to make you putting more efforts to self-learn German (but you will pull an all-nighter / burn the midnight oil)
3) Giving up learning German, and everyday having self-reflection endlessly: "Why I come to Germany / study in GI?!"
*** Please do not waste your money and time in GI, there are so many German schools (high quality and inexpensive), there are so many languages and cultures in this World. You are not supposed to spend money, be ill-treated and in return for nothing. ***
! Treasure your life, away GI!
Imagine when you purchase a fresh orange online, but end up in receiving a rotten orange. Please bear in mind that you are paying exact amount of money, don't think that "Better than nothing" to comfort yourself. A best known institution can be an unscrupulous institution. Paying the money for a five star hotel, but returning in abysmal services. This is the fault of the service providers, not the service of the customers!
The following links will give you a brief idea of what I happened at Goethe-Institut for half a year. I also understand that GI does not deal with these issues in a positive way, so the students can read it as a reference. I hope that this tragedy will not appear again in any other students. (Unfortunately only in English is available)
Sequence of events till 21-12
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BydkuMafy7xsa0lKZWJrbktXLWM
Questions to Goethe Institute
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BydkuMafy7xsVXlJNVIwbDNJUTA
Letter from 19/12/2016-16/01/2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BydkuMafy7xsREdKSk9BM2xaeGM
PS: Please do not waste time to reply / report me, and please do not use GI's staff's Facebook account to rate five-star, as this will make you do not know what is the genuine rating of your service, and affect the judgement of all the people! Nowadays who can easily make money, Goethe Institut do you know?[verkleinern]
