• eTeacherHebrew

eTeacherHebrew

Overview

eTeacherHebrew has a rating of 3.64 stars from 156 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with eTeacherHebrew most frequently mention rosen school. eTeacherHebrew ranks 7th among Language Learning sites.

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Positive highlights

  • I am studying both Ulpan (conversational Modern Hebrew) and Biblical Hebrew at the same time.

Critical highlights

  • they refuse to refund you and put someone else to replace you in the class -
  • I joined Eteacher/Rosen School of Hebrew with high hopes.
How would you rate eTeacherHebrew?
Top Positive Review

“34:14 & 12:14”

Orkhan S.
8/19/21

Psalm 34:14 Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it. Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

Top Critical Review

“Horrible and they are scammers”

Anayah I.
6/7/23

Please Do Not Enroll This school is horrible I lost my March of this year and I contacted the school March 12 to inform them that I am unable to continue the course. They said they would have work with me but here it is June, I have not landed anything and told them cannot continue. Well I am being threatened that they will send me to collection. I don't recommend the school. Also they are going to charge me 835 cancellation fee. Go somewhere else because they are scammers.

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Thumbnail of user shiram13
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
January 29th, 2024

1. Their promotion/hard sell is at best dishonest and at worst unscrupulous!
2. They do not inform you that you will NOT get a refund if you change your mind or need to withdraw FOR ANY REASON.
3. In my opinion, Rosen representatives are unprincipled and ruthless.
4. Between Nov 27,2023 and Jan 11,2024 Rosen withdrew over $1000 CDN from my Visa. In that time period there were two 1 hour lessons, followed by a two week Christmas break. They refused to reimburse me even a portion of the fees they claimed when I had to withdraw.

Tip for consumers:
They use a very hard sell and are unprincipled. There are no refunds once you've committed.

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Signed up for Level 1

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Thumbnail of user nandre27
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 7th, 2023

Please Do Not Enroll
This school is horrible I lost my March of this year and I contacted the school March 12 to inform them that I am unable to continue the course. They said they would have work with me but here it is June, I have not landed anything and told them cannot continue. Well I am being threatened that they will send me to collection. I don't recommend the school. Also they are going to charge me 835 cancellation fee. Go somewhere else because they are scammers.

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THEIR BUSINESS POLICIES AND SERVICE ARE TERRIBLE! 1. They will use high pressure techniques and not take NO for an answer. 2. You only have about 2 days to get a full refund. After than cancellation fees are 50-100% of the enrollment cost - that is about $600-1200 USD 3. They will charge you to change your start date if you attempt to do so more than once no matter what is said by the salesperson

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I took Beginner Hebrew

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Thumbnail of user marieg81
1 review
10 helpful votes
February 26th, 2018

I have been studying for 4 years. They offer a good curriculum and the teachers have been good. BUT THEIR BUSINESS POLICIES AND SERVICE ARE TERRIBLE! 1. They will use high pressure techniques and not take NO for an answer. 2. You only have about 2 days to get a full refund. After than cancellation fees are 50-100% of the enrollment cost - that is about $600-1200 USD 3. They will charge you to change your start date if you attempt to do so more than once no matter what is said by the salesperson 4. If you have a financial problem with them, they will stonewall you and since they are not bound by US laws, there is little recourse. Kiss your money good bye. Their business practices are unjust, disrespectful and unfair. So be very careful when you buy something from them - and record your conversations if possible. Good luck. If you know this before you sign up, you won't get stuck. (PS - and yes, if they incorrectly charge your credit card just submit it as fraud because they will never admit that they screwed up and don't seem to have a reliable accounting system).

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eTeacher H. – eTeacherHebrew Rep

Shalom Marie,

I was very upset to read your review and I would like to begin by apologizing for the unpleasant experience you had with our staff of course advisers and customer care representatives.

As you could probably see from the many other positive reviews written in this website and in many others, it is highly irregular that such an unfortunate experience like the one you had arise, and therefore I would like to try and see if there's anything in our ability to do in order to correct the negative impression that was created. It is a shame that the overall positive impressions on your learning process with us, the teachers and the syllabus would be tainted, and even though it is difficult to correct first impressions, we in eTeacher would like to give it our best shot.

Please contact me personally at michael.jacobs@eteachergroup.com and I assure you that I will dedicate my undivided attention to your matter.

Sincerely,
Michael Jacobs
Head of Online Customer Relations
ETeacher Group

Thumbnail of user orkhans1
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 19th, 2021

Psalm 34:14 Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

Tip for consumers:
If a service will charge you to pay for all the sessions in advance if you cancel, think about it again before you pay the first instalment.

Thumbnail of user theresaf258
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 7th, 2021

Needed to cancel before classes started because I would have limited availability. This school has made every second of this process an absolute *nightmare.*

They called my phone about 5-8 times a day, leaving no message identifying who was calling. I have had to block the number.

They refuse to take multiple emails as cancellation confirmation, still harass me regularly and have essentially stolen money from me.

This has been the most regrettable education decision I have ever made, I would recommend literally anywhere else.

Tip for consumers:
Make sure you can predict you will somehow have no future issues that require customer service- it’s so bad, it’s almost absurd

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eTeacher H. – eTeacherHebrew Rep

Hello dear Theresa,
My name is Laury B. Customer Success manager.
I would like to investigate on what happened. May you please provide me with student ID/email.
Rest assured that I will be able to facilitate concrete solutions!
I will take the opportunity to apologize deeply.
You can reply with the contact information to my personal email at lauryb@eteachergroup.com

Thumbnail of user rivkac5
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 25th, 2023

If you decide to quit your course after 30 days, you are responsible for the entire payment of roughly $1000. Read the fine print and beware.

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Hebrew course

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Thumbnail of user glenh180
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 30th, 2022

For a year I was quite satisfied with eteacher. Recent events have shown eteacher as money grabbers. They took money from my credit card for courses that did not start for 30-36 weeks and then wanted money for ongoing classes.It is like paying for groceries and the teller telling you when you pick up your groceries to go home. "Hey you need to pay for those. What you payed me for were for future groceries." A money grabbing scam if ever I saw one. The three purchases were unknown to me until I started to enquire why my balence was so low. I suggest people who have had simular experience as I have to complain to the Israeli Consumer Council and Hebrew University Jerusalem. Let us take action through Israeli grounded institutions that they will have a harder time to ignore.

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Thumbnail of user xp4
1 review
4 helpful votes
May 31st, 2021

I regret ever having come across this company and warn everyone to avoid them at all costs. They are basically a spam company and are not committed to teaching but rather to extracting money from people with unfair terms. You cannot cancel and receive a fair refund, even if you don't take the course. You cannot directly contact them--they can only contact you and treat you unprofessionally and bully you into paying them for services they have not rendered. WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THEM, EVER. STAY AWAY.

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Thumbnail of user paulb2418
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 15th, 2020

I began to learn with Rosen School, formerly eTeacher Hebrew, some 5 years ago: ulpan level 6, level 7 and level 8 twice (because it's so great). Every year has been a great experience and I hope to follow with many more years. Fees seem to me very affordable considering time and levels they offer. Teachers are so good, nice and ready to help at any time you need. During those 5 years I never had any trouble with payment. Highly advisable.

Thumbnail of user danielg802
1 review
9 helpful votes
July 2nd, 2020

I didn't like the course and I asked to cancel it. Then they discounted $270 USD ($396 AUD) without advising me about that fee.

Now I call to receive an explanation and they don't answer the phone.

Terrible service, this is really a theft.

Thumbnail of user ronaldoc15
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 5th, 2022

I have a such love for the people of Israel. Since I was a little kid I always wanted to visit Israel and learn their language. 8 years ago I became a member of Orr Shalom an Organization for Children and Youth at Risk. A=And for that reason I have been wanting to learn Hebrew so bad so I can communicate with them when I visit them.
In march 7 2022 a sale representative of Rosen School contacted me and offer their course. Everything was so fast and weird I asked the representative to explain more she said as soon as you make first payment someone will get in contact with you she didn't said how they will contact me. On march 9 2022 I requested the course to be cancel due to medical reasons. I called their number on their website several times without success I wrote several emails, I texted them on what's app they keep saying someone will contacted in 48 hours they did but days later
About 3 days ago and today I have been argument with this guy from Finance He has disrespected me in all the way possible. I requested to be given a chance to speak with a manager or supervisor he said " you are not allow to speak with no body here but me" I am still in shock, I could hear in the back ground they were laughing. I never started the course. He has been harassing me over emails. I have already reported to the bank as fraud and also reported to the Canadians authorities.

My heart is bleeding I am so devasted by this experience, I am going through some serious injuries and dealing with this Rosen School representatives is taken my life from me.
I need help if someone knows how can I get my refund back and make this people stop harassing please reply here.

Tip for consumers:
Please don't get close to this people

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Thumbnail of user ilylmai
1 review
5 helpful votes
September 22nd, 2020

I signed up to take the basic Hebrew course. The instructor does not wear a headset with microphone so she is incredibly difficult to hear and understand. The course did not start with a basic review of the block Hebrew letters, jumping right into cursive. One of the students asked (correctly) why we don't learn the block letters first; there no coherent answer why. Stay away from these folks.

Thumbnail of user nal4
1 review
13 helpful votes
March 22nd, 2019

Worst class I've ever taken. I was insanely disappointed and they refused to give me any money back. Was 3000+ sheckels and I didn't learn a thing even in the hardest level class. I spent 75% of each lesson listening to low level students trying to get through their sentences, and reading religious texts. I am still so angry and want my money back, but I know I will never get it.

Thumbnail of user weiyud
1 review
7 helpful votes
October 8th, 2020

Kind of comforted to see many got cheated by the theft-like school, as many have experienced, they really just focus on getting money from you. They sell you program without telling you time limit, and insane cancellation strategy (purposely), that is cheating. When I figured out several months later, they charged 741 euros on my credit card directly for cancellation. So I almost ended up paying over 2200 euros and not able to finish half of Hebrew A course. I fired a dispute through the bank, after long week of fighting with (extreme) terrible customer service, (that never it's reachable directly to the responsible people), eventually they refunded me partially, and reopened Hebrew A. But it was such a painful experience and a loss of much money, in total I spent 1874, 7 euros to be able to learn just Hebrew A course. Really insane experience.

Advice: don't be kind to their sales persons, those who are called academic advisors, they are robbers! Be really careful about your investment with this school.

Thumbnail of user yaell12
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 24th, 2021

Whatever is written on their website is a lie! Then when you speak to them, they give you completely different information, saying it must have been a mistake on the website.
Just one example: it says each level of Modern Hebrew course gives you 2 academic credits from the Hebrew University, for 98$ a month, 2 hr per week. None of it is true! First of all, it's only 1 hr per week, not 2. Secondly, most courses don't give you any credits and thirdly, if they "find" a class that suppose to give you these university credits, they want you to pay another $400.
When i told the sales person about all these lies, he said doesn't know what to say!
I'm going to contact the Hebrew University to make sure they will be no longer involved with this scam.

Thumbnail of user abels53
1 review
3 helpful votes
May 21st, 2021

The worst thieves, they act like terrorists to steal your money. Stay away from them. They even threaten you to remain paying them.

Thumbnail of user aregae1
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
May 14th, 2020

I had an outstanding problem with my classes because of my work schedule problem. The customer care manager, Mr. Jeremy Lalush, resolved my issue and gave me the option to study at my convenient time. I recommend Eteacher Group to anyone who wants to study both Biblical or modern Hebrew. They are amazing and the tech support agents are there to help you at any time.

Thumbnail of user jamien53
1 review
15 helpful votes
February 22nd, 2019

I would do zero stars if I could. I paid $1600 in tuition over a period of 3 months waiting for a teacher to contact me about classes. I was never assigned a teacher, and after a few more weeks of calling I finally got ahold of them to request a refund. They denied my refund request, and after multiple calls they supposedly approved a $1200 refund and said it would arrive after 3 weeks. When it didn't arrive, I called back multiple times and they won't answer my calls.

Thumbnail of user rivkahs2
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 8th, 2021

I signed up for 2 courses and was placed in the wrong level. I realized this after a week (but well before the courses started) and asked to switch to the correct level and receive the coursebooks for that level instead. I was assured that wouldn't be a problem. Well, six weeks later I still don't have the textbook for the course, I've had to fight with them basically every day about it, and they won't give me a full refund because it's been too long since I signed up. I'm so emotionally and mentally exhausted from fighting with them over this stupid textbook for SIX WEEKS and all I want is a full refund and to be done with this but they're holding hundreds of dollars of my money hostage because the course started two weeks ago. Meanwhile the reason it's so long into the course and I'm only now canceling is BECAUSE THEY WON'T SEND ME THE TEXTBOOK. I could scream. I will never ever use Rosen Hebrew School again and if you value your sanity I recommend you don't either. Every instance of asking for help with customer service was so frustrating and upsetting. Do yourself a favor and avoid this school at all costs. This was by FAR the worst customer service I have ever experienced, and I used to live in Israel so I'm used to Israeli customer service. This is another level of terrible.

Tip for consumers:
whatever you do, don’t sign up for this site

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Thumbnail of user yaelh2
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 28th, 2018

I have tried many Hebrew learning programs on my own, but my teacher and the materials really helped me learn better. I was able to strengthen my foundation and increase my confidence in speaking. I saw complaints about the aggressive sales tactics, but Israeli businesses style is very direct that way. There were some discounts and financing options which made it affordable. I really enjoyed the small class group with students from all over the wold!

Thumbnail of user katerinap14
1 review
5 helpful votes
October 20th, 2020

First, being enrolled in this course since early August, what has been done at classes was reviewing some alphabet letters, some syllables and words of not primary importance. From class to class the information, which I acquired by my own in two days using open-source materials, is uselessly repeated, namely we are asked to match print and cursuve (I don't understand what for as recognizing letters just come with practice); another task is writing letters on the screen that takes so much time and can be done individually without guidance that is practically not provided; and the last type of exercise is where we have to find a given letter in the words provided the same pictures (banana, heart, bear, avocado, hot air balloon, canoe and some more words that are not used in basic communication).
Second, discussing technical issues + repeating the same rules in English + considering the amount of students (~12) the 55 minutes literally turn into 5 mins for one to perform; however, I should mention that generally the speaking time means no more than 3 short sentences per class, otherwise this 'output part' is skipped at all.
Third, I still (!) haven't managed to access my open classes in spite of multiple-time discussions with stuff. Thus my classes per week are limited to one.
To conclude my essay, the price is absolutely unjustified, and the approach is outdated. 2 months - 0 results. Duo lingo helps better!
The only thing that could help to improve is immersion into the language and, most importantly, enthusiasm of teachers who not only follow a book, which is boring and can be done by one's own ( this is the case), but flexibly prepare lessons to achieve a progress

Thumbnail of user karinaf15
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
November 6th, 2019

It's hard to find classes for level after beginner in my city, so I am very appreciative that Rosen school has this option. Online is very convenient time-wise.

Thumbnail of user torit25
1 review
12 helpful votes
May 25th, 2020

They steal your money, do not get in touch, and do not give refunds. They are a COMPLETE SCAM. I do NOT recommend using them.

Thumbnail of user firef1
1 review
12 helpful votes
April 18th, 2019

After having the most hideous experience with this company 10 years ago where they managed to get out a few hundred dollars from my card but actually tried more but my card was already maxed out, I see they are still going strong and up to their old tricks. A formula that has worked well for them. One of the ways they scam you is by sending you out samples but when you sign for them, then they can say to the bank that this was a purchase and hence the charge.
Today I received an email from another company in Israel trying to sell stuff and I wonder if they sold my email address too.

Thumbnail of user magedw
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
April 15th, 2019

They will follow you with offers ( some of that offers fake) and they will be decent till they get your credit card details, after that no reply, they take money from your bank account without your permission, they will say they will call you and they will never do that, they will ignore any messages from you to help, they do not respect their policy, no notifications if they cancel classes, and never give you money if they take it, they will send you Email to threaten you to give them money of classes that you do not take
Escape and block them

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