Fun Language International (Thailand) Ltd.

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อาคาร พหล โย ธน เพลส ชั้น, 8 ซอย พหลโยธิน สามเสนใน, พญาไท, กรุงเทพมหานคร 10400
Added by Jopie, at 23 February 2016

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• Anynomous

  02 December 2017

  Good value for my children’s English needs.

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• Anynomous

  20 July 2017

  ลูกชายเรียนที่ Fun Language ครับ เห็นพัฒนาการชัดเจนมากๆ ทุกวันนี้พูดภาษาอังกฤษเก่งกว่าผมแล้วครับ

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• Anynomous

  20 July 2017

  น้องน้ำ หลานสาวเรียนที่นี่ค่ะ ครูที่นี่สอนดีมากๆ จากที่น้องพูดภาษาอังกฤษไม่ได้เลย ตอนนี้น้องพูดคล่องขึ้นเยอะมากค่ะ น้องน้ำตกหลุมรักภาษาอังกฤษได้เพราะ Fun Language เลยค่ะ ขอบคุณจริงๆค่ะ

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• Anynomous

  20 July 2017

  หลานมาเรียนที่นี่แล้วสนุกมาก ๆ เลยคะ หลานชอบการมาเรียนที่ Fun Club ที่สุดคะ คุณครูต่างชาติที่นี่สอนดีทำให้หลานเก่งภาษาอังกฤษขึ้นเยอะเลยคะ Love Fun

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• Anynomous

  28 March 2017

  I was an employee here. It's NOT a good place to work. You won't get your work permit. You will make crap pay. You'll loose a TON of money from being sick. You'll have to deal with an unorganized mess. 5 teaching hours a day, essentially back to back lessons, sometimes requiring you to move to the students classroom. Then you'll waste 2 hours a day in a taxi, during which you can't get any work done due to the road and driving conditions in Thailand. AND you get back to the office and are expected to do X,Y, & Z even though you have already put in 8+ hours that day. I was having to work on Saturday, during my free time to accomplish their task. Oh yeah btw doing X, Y, & Z is essentially busy work and serves no real purpose. In addition, some of the Thai staff are quite rude. You'll find yourself in a battle with your Thai teacher for classroom control on occasion (most of the Thai Teachers are good, just a few bad apples) and you don't get paid during the summer break. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DO NOT WORK HERE. My new job is SO MUCH BETTER. They take advantage of foreigners.

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• Anynomous

  23 May 2016

  I worked for Fun Language off and on for over 2 years. Living in Thailand for over 3 years, I realized Thai companies all have good and bad to them when comparing to back home. The goal is just to have more good than bad. You have to look at this country and appreciate the great things and try to avoid/ignore the bad.
  
  I can honestly say that Fun Language being my first teaching job was a great choice for a few reasons.
  
  1. They gave me fully developed detailed lesson plans and all resources which made things really
  easy
  2. I worked in the Bangkok office where they have over 40 foreign teachers, so I made lots of friends quickly
  3. The trainers they have are all really nice and helped me a ton, even though I wasn’t a good teacher in the early stages
  
  A few things to know that I didn’t realize right away, but should have paid better attention to initially.
  
  1. You get 4 sick days, try not to use them because if you don’t use them they pay you an extra days pay for each one at the end of your contract.
  2. Try not to call in sick because in your pay is a 2k baht sick bonus, if you call in sick you only get 40k for the month. I get it because it’s Bangkok and easy to want to take a day off, but the months that I did call in sick I was always mad at myself when I got 40k instead of 42k on my paycheck.
  3. They take a deposit out of your paycheck of 5% of your pay because of all the materials they give you. I didn’t like it at first, but when I finished I got all of it back because I didn’t lose anything. Was nice to get all the money back at the end before I left the country.
  4. They pay you all the normal Thai holidays during term, but during the ½ month in Oct and March/April when it’s not term, they reduce your pay to 10k per month if you don’t work. They do give you the option of doing holiday camps and pay normal pay during those days and the smaller amount on the other days you don’t work. WORK ON THE BREAK!!! I took some time off but worked some weeks to get more pay, which helps out big time.
  
  The biggest thing I miss is seeing all the foreign teachers every day, it was always a good time hanging out at the office and after work. The biggest thing I don’t miss is waking up early in the morning, I hated the days I had early starts. The days with 8:30 starts were ok, but 7am starts are crazy to me.
  
  If you're new to teaching or new teaching in a different country this is the job for you, but if you have 4+ years of experience teaching, you can get a lot more money and work less other places so hold out for something different. You don't really need experience for this company because they train you, so they don't pay anything extra for experience.

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• Anynomous

  01 March 2016

  This company is fraudulent and there are many issues, I worked here for 8 months and was one of many dissatisfied employees. Some issues with the company include.
  • No work permit
  • Inaccurate salary (promised 42000) every month got under 40000
  • No sick days and docked pay if sick (which is inevitable when working with children)
  • Costs of running the business passed onto employees
  • Work required outside of hours (with no pay)
  • Poor management and lack of leadership
  • Bias, subjection and unreasonable end of contract tests
  • No pay in holidays (makes yearly pay l ess than 33000 per month)
  • Will look for ways to get money out of you (eg 50 baht for lost flashcard when it costs less than half that to make)
  • Poor culture and overall negative work environment
  
  Overall I would not recommend this company to anybody, teachers ar e just an avenue to make for money for a purely profit orientated company. If considering taking employment here take the effort to find a company or school who do not falsify information because once you sign the contract you will be used. One positive is that is that is a good way to meet other foreign teachers and it does give you a good introduction to the Thai education system, but other than that avoid this company at all costs.
  

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