Unsatisfactory, uncomfortable and chaotic
I first arrived at the school with a very positive attitude as I had been put through a french test online and had received an email which said that I would get more information at school, and to me that all seemed very promising and thorough. To my surprise this was not the case in real life. The physical conditions of the school are very poor (toilets and sinks don't work properly, heating systems don't work in the classes, no possibility to buy a cup of coffee, terrible chairs in the classes, because the building is so loud, other classes often disturb you a lot etc). There was an overall lack of information in terms of what the classes were going to cover and more generally how the school works. The grammar book that the school provides you is full of errors. I changed teacher 4 times in just 6 weeks and the teacher all had very different approaches to teach the curriculum and that confused me. Most of my teachers were late every day even though all the students were there on time. Out of the 4 teachers I had, only 1 seemed enthusiastic about the job. This teacher focused a lot on talking with us which was exactly what we wanted and needed, and when this teacher went on vacation we got a new one who wanted to focus only on grammar. When I asked if we could speak more (because that's what we needed), the teacher said "no, because morning lessons are primarily grammar". A statement that is NOWHERE to be found online and a statement, that the teachers prior to this, clearly hadn't been been following. As I am the paying customer (and we were just 2 people in that class that both wanted to speak), I went to the office to talk to a person in the staff called Rosa to see if there was anything to do. She was very rude to me, accusing me of explaining the situation to her in English when I "should be speaking in French now" (this was just three weeks after I started...). I left the office feeling very angry with her and disrespected. On my last day, the teacher clearly wasn't aware that it was my last day and the diploma I got was not correct. This school could be such a nice place where people can meet across nationalities and discuss the beauties and difficulties of studying French but unfortunately it really isn't like that at all. Would not recommend this to anyone