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Some up-to-date pictures of English Time from their website. Directly below is the Taksim branch. Down and to the left, a typical classroom, this one in Bakirkoy. |
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There has been a lot of trash talk about ET on Dave's ESL cafe. Any language school in Turkey has its problems. I was there at the very beginning of ET, in 1998. It was a business going through growing pains, for sure, and they made some decisions that I think they learned from. Overall, I had the chance to work at three other language schools including Universal, Deulcom and ILM. All of those places had, at the time, been around longer than ET. And they were all significantly worse. I guess I needed that perspective. Below, a Kantin in one of the newer branches, and another typical classroom in the other picture. The classes I had in Sirinevler were bigger. |
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The venerable Molly of ET. She was there at ET's conception, but left in 1999 (as did every teacher she hired). It was chaotic after she left. A series of directors/general managers traipsed through the organization. None were too well liked. Slimey Selim and Murat the Rat were two cute nicknames for two of them. When Molly left, they created the 'Head Teacher' position, which they secretly offered every remaining teacher in hopes of contract renewals. They hadn't counted on us discussing it with each other... |
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Sirinevler, above. At a tradeshow, below. |
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