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soapdodger · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 203

Just came across a school called Monkey Business English...that deserves to win a prize!!!! Anyone got any others?

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

'The Laughing Coyote School of English' is currently recruiting here in Mexico.

A certain school here has a billboard advert that goes something like:

Tu apols = Two apples You're speaking English already!(in Spanish)

It has a picture of two apples of course. I'd find it more than a little patronising.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Is that the one that promises you'll be bilingual in less than a year?

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

A different sort of school but I swear this one's for real:

The Impact School of Motoring in W London.

soapdodger · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 203

Don't want to go too far off topic, but there is a driving school here called Grendel....how the hell they chose that.....???!!! Out of work prof of Old English, maybe!

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

soapdodger · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 203

Please, oh, please somebody does The French School of English!!!! In Mexico!!!

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

In China, the private k-schools have the most interesting names. the language mills use pretty standard names. The only one I can think of at the moment is "the high altitude school". Every time I go by, I have this image of some teacher or parent kicking the child in the butt into the sky. I always mean to take pictures of some of the really messed up school names, and never remember

quoi_de_neuf? · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 48

Going back to driving schools... There's one here called "Warning"... Funnily enough, it's not the one I signed up with!

Julieanne · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 120

I think Kiwi English is pretty funny! I know its a bird but I always think of a fruit. Either way neither of them have anything to do with English.

MELEE · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

Kiwi is also the nickname for New Zealander. I would assume that the school in question was run by a person from New Zealand (which has quite a lot to do with English) and I wouldn't think it was funny at all. Not any more so than a school called American English.

Sef · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 74 Location: UK

Also not particularly funny but I used to teach in a place called Purple College. I was so disappointed when I arrived on my first day and found the buildings were all painted blue and white Rolling Eyes

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

I used to live near the Bing Bang Boom English school to the north of Tokyo, and there was a school in central Tokyo called Howdy Howdy English school. I haven't seen any job ads for that one for a while though so they either changed their name or went out of business, which is more likely.

soapdodger · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 203

Just found the Elvis School of English in Prague.

" How are you?"
"Wella, wella, I'm shakin' all over"

Beats "Fine thanks, and you?" anyway!

Maybe they're using that tried and tested model of an EFL classroom, ie a dead fat American in a toilet.