Too
Good to be True
Some
say you can do it in seven days, others promise success in 24 hours, or you may
prefer to take (0) ... time and do it 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
(7) ... have done was to make (8) ... clearer in the advert."