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Japan Online School - canji - 2008-11-19
Has anyone tried the Japan Online School? Any thoughts (about the Japan Online School)?
http://www.j-os.com/index.html
Japan Online School - wccrawford - 2008-11-19
I haven't tried it, but I'm not impressed. Even the basic plan is extremely costly, and they provide very, very little information about it. For $20/hr, I can get a local tutor and meet face-to-face one-on-one and she'll assign 'homework' as well. Yeah, I have 1 particular local tutor in mind, but I haven't tried her yet. Her presentation of what she provides is a -lot- better in a single page than theirs is for their entire website.
And note that $20/hr is the basic price on that site. For the $40 and $60/hr lessons you get better teachers. (It says so on their pricing page, with the $60 lessons getting you their 'Best quality Japanese lessons conducted by our most experienced teachers'.)
The trial lesson has a money back guarantee, though, so you could try it and see with no risk.
Japan Online School - shneen - 2008-11-19
I haven't taken any wit the one you mentioned, but I took a few with JOI (http://www.japonin.com/) last summer. My instructor was pretty nice and helpful... and I didn't think the pricing was too bad. My only big beef was that the lesson schedule is designed more for people who are outside of Japan, so the classes I wanted to take were all either during the day while I was at work, or at 10 or 11 at night... which is doable, but a little on the late side, especially when I have to be up early for work the next morning.