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[roywebcafe]

I have been offered a job at Prolinguis and Ceran the latter in a remote place in the Ardennes and Prolinguis you know about. I accepted the offer with Ceran cos they were first - not always wise was regretting not taking the prolinguis job until i started reading these posts. At least at the phone interview they said i could learn French and Dutch by paying the teachers their hourly rate. Did anyone try this? Ceran won't do this

Ceran btw are based in Ferriers a remote village nr Spa 40km from liege they say after one month will have to move to Liege and commute. Can anyone tell me about their expereicne with Ceran and how they got on with accomodation and commuting? Worried about the expenses involved - i would like to save money. At least Ceran offer a weeks training. Would like to know about this also. In fact anything about them would be useful. So please reply ASAP. Job starts in June 23rd.

[spiral78]

I have been through CERAN's training program and know the school at least a bit. To avoid making public my personal evaluation of an individual school, I'll send you a pm.

[roywebcafe]

Look forward to hearing about it

[spiral78]

Then check your message box. I wrote yesterday. To do that, in case you're not familiar with pms on Daves, go to the top of this page. On the right, in blue, you'll see a line that says 'you have 1 new message' Just click there to go into your private messages.

I prefer not to post this information openly as it contains my personal opinions of this specific school. I don't want to either praise or slander on a public forum.

[roywebcafe]

I looked but no messages

[spiral78]

Going to re-write and re-send it shortly.

[spiral78]

Done. Let me know if it doesn't go through - this time I've copied it in my document file.

[ratsareeatingmybrain]

Did a summer camp at a Ceran place in the UK two years back. Liked the place and the people.

Didnt much care for their method, which involves using questions in fixed, pre-defined order to bring the students round to correcting their own mistakes. It felt artificial and an unnecessarily slow way to point out often simple errors. Perhaps at very low levels it might make more sense. That'll be what most of your week induction is for, i'm guessing.

[SueH]

[spiral78]

Actually, there IS a fair amount of praise in it I just didn't want to get into detail on the forum about approaches and methods.

[spiral78]

Bumping thread up for new poster.