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Marginally on-topic, but I just looked at the tuition for the Monterey Institute. A summer program is $15k USD; a full semester is $16k USD. If you want to le
by donw 15y ago
Marginally on-topic, but I just looked at the tuition for the Monterey Institute.
A summer program is $15k USD; a full semester is $16k USD.
If you want to learn a language, and have a spare $15K and the time for intensive classes, you're far better off just booking a plane ticket, going to wherever it is, and hiring a private tutor.
Let's say you wanted to learn Chinese. You can live very, very comfortably in Beijing on about $2k USD per month, including the cost of a private tutor, food, entertainment, and travel.
That means six months in-country for less than the tuition of the Institute. Six months of daily use plus intensive study will move you, terms of proficiency, ahead of 90% of people that hold degrees in Chinese.
You could do something like this even in less westerner-friendly countries, and learn a million times more than you will at any language school -- there is absolutely no substitute for actual experience.
- roel_v 15y agoI don't know anything about US three-letter agencies' hiring practices, but wouldn't living in e.g. China for 6 to 12 months make it harder to get hired there? Wouldn't attending a 'regular' school make you look more hire-worthy, even if you know less of the language? (similar to how people with papers from a degree mill be looked upon more favorably by certain companies than those who learned programming on their own)
- idlewords 15y agoI have no idea where you got those prices but they are not correct.
- idlewords 15y agoHeh, people can continue to downvote me but it won't change the fact that I paid about 3K for the SILP course.
- donw 15y agoIf you mean the MIIS prices, I got them here: http://www.miis.edu/admissions/tuition http://www.miis.edu/admissions/tuition
- idlewords 15y agoYeah, those are for an unrelated program. See the SILP tuition, which is around $3k.
- super_mario 15y agoYeah, but then you would have to live in an Arabic country for a while, risking getting stoned to death for being too liberal, or having to be covered in table cloth all the time if you are unfortunate enough to be born a lesser creature i.e. a woman.