English College  Reviews 16

TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

3.7

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TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This residential course is inconsistent…

This residential course is inconsistent and in our experience unsuitable for young children.
11 year olds (5th class students) are with 14 year olds (2nd year students), and very little supervision, so younger children were upset and older children were wronged.
The supervisors are very young, and not teachers.
Rules and excessive consequences for breaking the rules are applied inconsistently. Communication with parents is zero until an issue is at crisis point.
It took some time for our child to recover from this experience.

24 July 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very poorly run course and would not…

Very poorly run course and would not recommend at all. Young, inexperienced staff supervising large group of students. In the course my child attended, there were 40-50 students of mixed ages (13-18) in one dormitory, with only 3 supervisors, two of whom were under 20 years of age.

13 June 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brilliantly run course!

Really engaging and well run! Our son had a great experience here last summer with his friends and his high mark in his mocks is a testament to the quality of this course. Will be recommending to friends.

15 July 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We were delighted with the course

We were delighted with the course. My son’s confidence with oral French improved dramatically and his written French also improved significantly. He enjoyed the experience and made good friends. We will book our other boy in this year. Top marks!

14 July 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is an awful program and it's run terribly…

This is an awful program and it's run terribly that discourages young people from participating in it. 1,400 euro to learn French for 18 days in some village in county Limerick? Absolutely ridiculous for that amount of money you can literally go to France for a month. There are many other things such as the phone rule present which makes no sense. By restricting teenagers from using their phone (except 3 times for 40min) that really makes it so nobody wants to go.

13 July 2022
Unprompted review
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Reply from English College

Dear ChaosForever,

First of all, thanks for taking the time to write the review, we take your feedback very seriously, also we like the name you have chosen ‘ChaosForever’.

Euro Languages College has been running residential language immersion courses since 1999, where we have received excellent feedback on the content of the program, we have a mixture of French, German and Spanish staff that give our students an understanding of the culture of the language they are studying in secondary school.

Irish teenagers have improved their exam results as a direct benefit of attending one of our courses, all courses have over 40 hours of classroom learning – this equates to over half an academic year.

Some key points in response to your review:

- The course doesn’t take place in a small village in Co. Limerick
- The cost includes the cost of full board – accommodation, food, classroom learning, fun filled activities and supervision- this is good value for money in comparison to other alternatives in France, Germany, or Spain.

In any immersion language course, a restriction on the use of mobile phone is important for students to focus fully on improving their language, this is similar experience to the Irish Ghaeltacht courses, we do recognize that technology and learning a modern foreign language is very important and our plan is to integrate more technology over a phased time.

Finally, again thanks for the feedback, just to highlight that most students and parents are delighted with their experience of Euro Languages College.
Again, please feel free to give us a call at 012784448 to discuss any of your points.

Kind Regards,
ELC Team.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Would highly recommend...

I would highly recommend Euro Languages for your teenage son or daughter, well organized courses, hugely beneficial for my kids, I attended the French course myself years ago!!

1 June 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

ELC recommendation

My daughter attended the French course in 2021, very professionally ran, met loads of new friends and importantly her grades and confidence in speaking French improved significantly, I would highly recommend ELC to other parents...

28 October 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent courses

Excellent courses, my son and daughter attended this summer, an excellent balance between fun and language learning, their has been a marked improvement in their French and German language skills respectively, would highly recommend to all second level students.

7 July 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great course

Great course. So well run. Couldn't have asked for a better service. Very child centred, and a fabulous learning environment. Highly recommended :-)

1 August 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Superb course

Superb course, extremely well run and organised. My child had a fantastic experience and is looking forward to going again next summer.

14 August 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Course

My daughter went on one of their spanish leaving cert courses last year, and it has really helped her in class this year! She has even told her younger sister to do it!!

21 March 2012
Unprompted review
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