Tandem Santiago - Escuela de idiomas

Experiencia fantástica: Una escuela fantástica con profesores y personal amables, y un programa excepcionalmente interesante para conocer la ciudad y su cultura. Las clases reducidas y el ambiente relajado crean un entorno de aprendizaje ideal.

Experiencia negativa: I do not recommend.

Experiencia negativa: I’ve just got back from the first day of my two weeks course and am extremely disappointed. After double checking the reviews (right now), I’ve realised that most of them are 6-7 years old and I think that the quality of the school went down since then. Firstly, I got to the course which was way too difficult (the teacher rejected to speak or explain vocabulary or whatever in English, which was really difficult as if you miss the meaning of some words in the sentence, you get lost quickly). I was asking a lot of questions (every time when I didn’t understand something) but was the only one so after a while I stopped asking and lost the track with the teacher. After some time, myself and other two students realised that the level is too high for us so we were relegated to a different class. The teacher we got was everywhere, too confusing, didn’t have any structure of the lesson, she was jumping from one grammar problem to another or she was over explaining one thing. Her knowledge of English was very poor. We didn’t do any practicing exercises until I asked to do so. A good teacher should know this. Then she started explaining that she has to follow what her boss tells her (which I think wasn’t professional at all). The good and competent teacher can be spot by one thing (to hear and understand students needs and try to adapt). None of these two teachers had it. I’ve went through many English and Italian courses (both in group and individual) so I am able to compare the quality and the structure of the class. This was my the worst experience. I wouldn’t recommend to come here and take a course. It’s waste of the money. Thankfully, I paid only the deposit (so the full two weeks tuition hasn’t been taken by the school). Though 100$ deposit was. At least I have a book which I’ll go through by myself as I know I will learn more by selfstudying than with the teachers at this school.

Experiencia fantástica: Gentilezza e professionalità contraddistingue tutto il personale di Tandem. Professori preparati che propongono lezioni interessanti e adeguate al livello dello studente. La signorina Jazmin alla reception è sempre pronta ad aiutarti e accoglierti con un sorriso... Astrid, forza della natura, propone sempre attività extra divertenti ed interessanti. Ritornerò! Lorena Castellani

Experiencia fantástica: A fantastic language school in Santiago. I've greatly enjoyed my time here, not just for improving Spanish but also for making new friends. The classes were interesting and included as much talking as possible which resulted in quick improvement of my Spanish. If you're going, don't pack your weekends with activities, the school has well organized activities that you definitely want to join. I was lucky to go to natural hot springs, Valparaiso & Viña del Mar, rafting and a winery. Vero, Luisa, y Javiera, muchas gracias para tu clases. Yo las disfrutaba y aprendia mucho. Astrid, tus actividades en el fin de semana fueron fantástico! Me encantan mucho.