tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post2161003506480095389..comments2023-10-31T08:52:55.991-03:00Comments on Notes from the TEFL Graveyard: BREAKING BADLYM C Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-60222169270814754352014-03-13T22:39:43.179-03:002014-03-13T22:39:43.179-03:00xerxes, very perceptive of you. Spoken Portuguese ...xerxes, very perceptive of you. Spoken Portuguese is a very laissez faire affair, but when they write formally, you're transported right back to 16th century Portugal. Anon, thanks for pointing this shower out to us - a depressingly familiar story, unfortunately. Shysters seem drawn to this business for some reason.M C Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915316267943374795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-27210522609964659242014-03-12T14:50:16.231-03:002014-03-12T14:50:16.231-03:00The Via Lingua TEFL course in Florence, Italy is a...The Via Lingua TEFL course in Florence, Italy is a total scam. The school intentionally misleads potential students on its website by claiming that 85% of graduates of the TEFL course get a job within 1-30 days from finishing the course. This is a blatant lie. Most of the people from the course go home without a job. The school provides very little in the way of support. Their idea of an exclusive lifetime job network for graduates is a binder full of print outs of job postings from TEFL.com and Daves ESL cafe.<br /><br />Furthermore, the housing they provide is subpar and the owner of the school when confronted about these issues becomes very hostile. Via Lingua is basically a marketing scheme- they’ll say whatever they can (mislead, or leave out important information about the job market or working visas, etc) so they can get you to sign up for their course. They have about five or six websites all saying the same stuff and they’ve paid bloggers and ESL sites like ESL Base to do free advertising. It’s not a professional school in any sense of the word. However, on the bright side (can’t all be bad, right)- Florence is a beautiful city!<br /><br />Time for this school to be added to the TEFL blacklist. Via Lingua, you’re on notice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405679235603736635.post-31515334391099076942013-09-11T17:32:59.736-03:002013-09-11T17:32:59.736-03:00If you mumble in Portuguese, what does the result ...If you mumble in Portuguese, what does the result sound like? My own attitude is that the language sounds as though it would be fun to learn, if only because, at least in Brazil, they don't seem to be hung up on silly things like grammar or pronunciation.xerxeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787696262480033808noreply@blogger.com