WillieTan said:
lI'm looking at JCS now. Any review? Duno if the intensive course would be too tedious for me. I'm serving army doing clerical work in Ministry of Defence located at Bukit Timah.
Would appreciate if someone who's from bunka, Pyaess and JCS can share more insight?
Hi,
Did elementry to pre-advanced in JCS, then did Intermediate 3 to 4 in Bunka. In my personal opinion, JCS is more organised and structured in teaching grammer and writing, but there is almost ZERO chance of conversation due to the large class size.
For Bunka, I feel that their notes are not clear (in fact, quite confusing) in explaining grammer - if I didn't do Intermediate in JCS, I wouldn't know what they are trying to say in the notes. But in Bunka you have more chance to speak and this is good. They also teach translation in Bunka which JCS doesn't.
Basically, 2 schools have different approaches... What most pple are saying is to get grammer foundation in JCS and then move to other schools with smaller classes once you proceed to higher level. For the purpose of JLPT 3 and 4, JCS will be (more than) good enough.
Just btw, I was quite upset with the attitude of pple in Bunka and the fact that their advanced classes are forever full!! so I am switching school!
Thinking of Pyaess.
Any review/comments for their advance classes? I know some pple might have mentioned before but it's too difficult to go through all 68 pages of posts