English course

Hhh.. it's hard, when knowing that you're broke, but you need something costly immediately to improve your knowledge. 😂

Last blog, I said that i will tell you another course that I really want to take but it's expensive, and now I already took it, and paid it with credit card.. wkwwkwkk..

The price is Rp2,5m for 90 sessions in 3 months. 1 session is just 30 minutes, but I dont know, I think it's worth the price. It forces me to speak, and somehow that's better than just sitting in the class and listening to the teacher.

If you want to join this course, you need to download the cakap app, and buy the course package. The more sessions you buy, the less price you pay for one session. For example, I bought 3 months package (90 sessions) for Rp2,5m, if I buy 6 months package (180 sessions), they could give me price Rp4,2m. So the price for 1 session in longer time is cheaper which is Rp23k (compared to the price i got Rp28k). But if you only take very short course (2 sessions class) it will cost you Rp99,5k per session, that's very expensive. Next, after buying the package, you can book your class and choose the time. You can also choose your teacher. When the time begin, you have to open up the application and click "enter class". You should use your headphone to have a better conversation with the teacher. You're not allowed to be late. Once you are late, your study duration will be cut off. For your information, most teachers are from Philippines, that is good because they can't speak bahasa at all, so you need to speak full english. Some of them are native speaker (from us or uk), but I never tried their classes, maybe later.

Today is my second class. My teacher's name is alpha, from Philippines. She has taught me twice. What I like about this course is the teacher can fix our grammar, pronunciation, or the word directly when we're talking. Alpha is good, but today she didn't give me more chances to speak and ended up talking about her self 😂. I have booked another teacher for tomorrow. I wish she's better or at least as good as alpha. I'm gonna share to you later about the course progress. I wish I won't miss the class.

Bye.

English Course

Several weeks ago, there were some "disturbing" pop-ups advertisements from an english institution. They offered ielts course with "not too expensive" cost, compared to other ielts courses in Jakarta. They are so clever, providing something that I need, based on what I search on internet in current time.

Then, I registered to this course with my sister. I took intensive Ielts course that only focusing on speaking and writing. Frankly, when I think about it, it wasn't really cheap, because we only had 3 exams (pre, mid, and post), 2 meetings for speaking program, and 6 meetings for writing program. All meetings are held in saturday and sunday. 1 meeting is about 4 hours. That's a quite short course, right? But I'm satisfied with the course. I got another ielts course last year that costs about Rp5m (my office paid for that), so more or less I knew what ielts is. Then I took official ielts test in Sept 2018, and the result was horrible. I only got 5 on speaking and 6 on writing. Both listening and reading were 6.5. Damn. 😑 That's why I took this course.

The course started from 12 July - 17 Aug, as you can see the schedule below.

It might be short, but I can assure you that it is worth. For speaking program, I was taught by native speaker who gave me very useful advices to improve my speaking. He was truly honest by saying that I need huge effort to speak fluently. Sadly it was only 2 sessions ☹️.

In my next journal, I'll tell you about another speaking course that I really want to take. I wish I do. But it's a hard decision because of its price.. 😭 haha.. poor me..