Some say you can do it in seven days, others promise success in 24 hours, or you may prefer to take more time and do it (0) IN 5 weeks. What are we talking about? Believe it 1 not, these periods 2 time refer to language learning courses that promise excellent results in less time 3 it takes to say 'Bonjour'! However, the advertisements of these companies are not necessarily the best guide and if you don't know what to look for in a good course you could be left with little 4 than a large bill.
A complaint was recently made to a consumer rights group against WhizzLearn Systems, a language school chain, and the company has been forced to remove its claim that its technique is ten times better than any 5 method. The Managing Director of WhizzLearn Systems said "6 we still believe our claim is true, we are willing to change our advert. But the fact remains, if you spend 3 hours per day for 5 weeks on our language course you will soon be speaking the language. What we could 7 done was to make 8 clearer in the advert."