Hi everyone, I'm an ex-student of Pusat Bahasa Teikyo and unless you're a JPA student I would highly recommend avoiding this place. The teaching standards have dropped drastically as most of the good teachers have already left this year. The current staff and teachers are some of the most unfriendly and rude people I've ever met.

First of all, don't believe the lie that you can join this school if you don't know Japanese. (Thats what their recruiter told me) You need to know min N4 level Japanese if you're gonna survive the class. The 20 months course is basically A levels but in Japanese. As such, things will move very fast and the senseis will only speak Japanese to you whether you understand them or not.

Second of all, there is a very clear sense of bias between the JPA and Private students. The JPA are treated very well (they get a lot of freebies, custom t-shirts, dorm arrangements, school bus service, etc) while the Private students get nothing at all even though we're paying the same amount of fees. (Don't get me started on how they treated the private students during Covid-19 pandemic)

Thirdly, Private students are nothing more than tools to lure people in. The school will ask you to participate in a lot of PVs, bring people into your class during tours, and even offer you money if you convince any poor soul to join the school. They won't show you the JPA class tho. (Not to be racist, but I think the idea is people will feel more comfortable seeing an equal amount of races in a class than a class where 80% of students wear tudungs)

Lastly, the homework given by PBT is insane as they believe doing homework = studying, and that the average student should study 10 hours a day. So in other words they'll give you 10 hours worth of hw each day. If you're lazy person this might be effective for you but for those self studying types like me its a nightmare because of the mountains of hw they give each day.

In short, like the previous post said you're better off saving money and going to a japanese language school in japan instead.