Great experience with Language Corps

Ratings
Overall
5
Benefits: 5
Support: 5
Fun: 4
Facilities: 5
Safety: 4
Review

I recently completed the Language Corps one month TEFL course with equal time spent in Cambodia and Vietnam. After a frustrating period of searching online for reputable TEFL courses I finally was told by a friend and now fellow graduate of the course to check out Language Corps. I was happily surprised by their professional organization but found that the next course was beginning in only 3 days. I was worried that there was no way I would be able to enroll at such late notice, but with the help of Linda Smith (Director of Operations) and a long bus ride from Vietnam, where I was visiting a friend, and Cambodia, I was able to arrive just in time to start the class.
The teaching staff in Cambodia was great and I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that the head instructor Nick Mihaljevic is a rare talent and accomplished grammarian that any prospective teacher would be lucky to learn from and be inspired by. He is also a spectacular karaoke singer and dancer but don't take my word for it, Thursday night Karaoke at he Marady hotel is an experience one should not miss.
After the first two weeks of teaching theory and grammar instruction and a tough goodbye to a group that became a tightly knit group in our classes in Cambodia, a smaller bunch of us headed to Vietnam. The staff and offices in Vietnam were professional and well prepared and I couldn't have been happier with my time there. Linh and Hien were supportive and available to all of us and our student teaching time (every day for two weeks) was the most important part of the entire course. Constant feedback from our teachers and our fellow classmates, in addition to relationships built with our talented students prepared us well for the jobs that all of us hold now.
I am currently teaching at a monastic institute in Pokhara, Nepal, instructing young monks in English and Physics and while still learning, feel that the course gave me the confidence necessary for the task of instructing young monks here in the mountains of Nepal. Every member of my class who I am in contact with has found employment, including class members who did not have university degrees and were advised by many people they would be unemployable.
Learning to teach with Language Corps was an all around great experience and I would recommend it to any prospective student looking for a reputable organization with talented instructors here in South East Asia.

Would you recommend this program?
Yes, I would
Year Completed
2014