University of Otago Language Centre and Foundation Year

A message for Paul the dean when I was enrolled, and Angela the student assistant at the time. The reason I’m doing this now is because of the pandemic, we never know if tomorrow is gonna happen for a time like this. It has been years since I was enrolled with the facility, by the second year I was diagnosed with major depression due to a variety of reasons. I tried everything I could to recover, yet I was humiliated by Paul and Angela, ultimately kicked out of the programme. All in all, I understood the difficulty and challenging I have brought, the exclusion was fair, to an extent. What I can never forgive is I was mocked for my misfortune and was show with no compassion nor mercy. Paul the dean claimed he was doing me a massive “favour” by excluding me, “the tuition could be use to purchase a fancy car” by the dean, which I did purchased a car to commute when I went to study. Angela kindly reminded me how I should not be given another chance, mentioning my suicide attempts as “not to mention the silly things you’ve done” I was too young and weak to defend for myself, but I’m not taking this to the grave. May god have mercy and forgiveness with your soul, because I shall never. Honestly, Otago was amazing overall. Most staffs and lecturer are friendly and professional, I did had a good time.

unprofessional. given a specific time to collect the ielts results and had had to wait for more than half n hour

The staff are friendly and professional. Enjoyed the test environment

Professional, friendly and helpful. Very well run.

Staff members are very friendly and kind, thanks.

very good i like it

perfect place to study English

Going into new challenge

Tuition is more expensive than university, and the knowledge you learn here is not as valuable as domestic junior high schools. If your IELTS level is good enough, their teachers will also advise you and tell you that another level of language course is very difficult... If you just want to play games here every day, waste some time, or are not too anxious to go to college, this is a good place to spend time :

If you want to improve your English, this is the right place for you. The course is not cheap, but the quality is high. It is multimedia and the students come from all different countries. The likelihood of speaking German again in between is low. Even if some German speakers can't help it.