Soas Language Centre

The courses are currently online only and via video conference. It’s extremely hard to learn a new language via video conference so I would not recommend to anyone. Just watch video on youtube for free and it will work the same or even better as you wont have 20 people peoples talking together with really poor audio quality.

My experience studying at the language centre has been nothing short of fantastic. The teachers are very supportive and go to a great deal of effort to ensure that students are on top of the material. Highly recommended.

The Japanese diploma course was informative, thorough and well run by a dedicated and friendly group of tutors.

classes are enjoyable and interactive, i feel that my Arabic has come a long way since joining

It’s amazing how bad this place is. The teachers don’t take the class seriously and don’t bother to prepare anything. We made absolutely NO progress in 10 weeks. A complete waste of money. They do SO many things wrong, for example waaaay too much teacher speaking time, no pair or group work for students. I complained twice and was offered no compensation. Really terrible course and bad customer service. They don’t even bother to reply to emails. I had heard it was bad but it was a joke. I got a student discount and it still wasn’t worth it. This is for Chinese, maybe other languages are different. I gave up and went to UCL for Japanese, where the teacher is great.

I can't say I agree with the other one (negative) review at all. So much so, that instead of going home last thing on a Friday, I'm writing this. I've overall found this place to be great. I dreamed of studying languages here and took Arabic and Chinese, and Russian around the corner at RLC and it was perhaps the most satisfying year of my life. The teachers were so encouraging that I finished 8 years of courses in a year. Anne Campbell, the head, is past retirement age and I've seen her running around a lot in holding things together for us. There's a lot to be said for that. Romany Luckcock (organised Arabic classes for me) and Matthew Oryang (organised Chinese classes for me) fielded countless questions and have been extremely helpful. I started Arabic with Mahsn Majidy, who is THE person you want to start learning Arabic with. Salah and Hasan are also great, very technical teachers. For Chinese, I only remember my most recent teacher Mr. YueGang Jin, who is an awesome, fun, engaging teacher to have. And, as students book up till the last minute, the team do an awesome job in accommodating us.