Goethe Reviews

Too expensive and unreliable

berteuert und unzuverl ssig Expensive and unreliable I had booked A1intensive but had an accident in first week I had no possibility to reach the teacher or the Mombasa office to find a way to shift the course to next course period There is no phone number for Mombasa office and teacher did not share contact either After my recovery i went at school and asked about a possibilty to join again I had paid 39 000 00 kes I was told I should have inform them But to join new I would have to pay a fee of 13 500 00 kes In terms and conditions 5 of course fee is mentioned which is 1 950 00 kes One day in first week the teacher did not come at all without informing the students at all I cannot recommend Goethe Institut in Mombasa at all

Not worth the money

Not worth the money I have taken a few courses with different institutes and I decided to try a course with Goethe as they seem well known I had been given some warnings by colleagues who had taken these courses and I should have listened Goethe cancel classes and courses with no warning but give you no leeway if you want to reschedule a course If you are outside of the 14 day notice period after booking it is tough luck If they want to change the time of the course to one that doesn t suit you it is take it or forget it Aside from that the classes are basically as good as the other students are The teachers are nice but you spend most of your time in groups talking with people who are also just learning For some reason they simply cannot end the lessons on time and if you need to leave after the lesson is due to end you will miss the last extra ten minutes or so which is a time when you actually might get some instructions or feedback from the teacher If the teacher can t make a class it will be rescheduled maybe to a weekend maybe on a public holiday and if you cannot make it tough luck I learn from the homework but I could do these exercises myself for free You can get a far better experience with a 1 to 1 tutor for less money than you pay for these courses I won t be back

It took them three weeks to reply a

It took them three weeks to reply a mail impossible to communicate with As a whole it doesn t worth the money and there are much better alternatives

Goethe Institut

I enrolled on an online German course at the Goethe Institut I paid not little money for it and after 4 days I still don t have access to it I wrote them and they answered me they couldn t process my request before 7 days They don t have a phone number to contact them directly and don t have a page where it s possible to write a review I m simply disgusted Nevermore a German course with the Goethe Institut

rubbish overpriced course

I did the online german course It was a complete waste of time It was MASSIVELY overpriced DID NOT LEARN ANYTHING No grammar or explanations just badly put together questions dumped on a barely functioning website What a waste of money

So disappointed

I joined the online only course so I can learn at a time suitable for me My key issue for me is that lessons totally lack explanation The system is also buggy so you can frequently lose your work when it crashes The course was totally tasked based reading listening and sorting text I ve had more fun watching paint dry especially when you don t understand what you did wrong This is the worst online course I have done I found other online courses have better explanations and make learning more interesting Totally disappointed and didn t expect such a poor offering from the Goethe Institute

NEVER buy a course here

HORRIBLE DON T LET YOUR KIDS GO THROUGH THE S T THAT I HAD TO GO THROUGH My parents bought an a2 half-year course for me 14 And when I heard the price I was completely in awe Ridiculously overpriced But was it good NO The website for homework and tests etc was impossible to navigate Nothing inside was in English and the translation tool didn t work Even when I managed with Google Translate image tool I SPENT 30 MINUTES CLICKING EVERYTHING TO TRY TO FIND HOMEWORK And it s like this EVERY SINGLE TIME Now the lessons The woman was horrible She was mean and whenever I came home at 6 I would have an hour and a half of pain with her yapping It wasn t even useful yapping She would not teach anything useful For example we spent 3 minutes discussing the dative lightly and in the next lesson we had a test WTF Then we would just spend the entire lesson learning to pronounce TS or some dumb crap like looking at an image and guessing where in the world it is OR doing group work DOG WATTER I learned more from Duolingo s lesson than from half a year with Geothe DO EVER SPEND YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY ON THIS And save your kids the pain too

The online course is a terrible product

The online course is a terrible product - the voice modules are slow the UI is dated and the course lacks thorough explanations It was a total waste of money On top of that the customer care is very slow to respond 3 days and don t often answer the full question The exam rescheduling policy does not include sick notes which would generally be fine but there is also no compassion or customer care whatsoever for any act of god types of incidents I personally had to undergo an emergency surgery and was charged a rebooking fee I asked for a contact the head of customer care who sent a very condescending email about how I agreed in the T Cs While I hated the product the time to grade exams was a huge plus for Goethe I will now actively go out of my way to never use Goethe and make sure I share this with everyone I know looking for a German course

I m surprised about the negative

I m surprised about the negative comments here I attended 5 intensive courses with GI and the quality was top