I really enjoyed this course because I could practice and improve my English conversation with daily intersting subjects. Mary is a great teacher, very enthusiastic and easy going, perfect to teach the conversation class.
The lessons were quite focus on conversation skills but I missed more tricks for communication skills. However my overall rating is high and I would recommend it
The wholecourse is very good
The course helped me to improve my dutch but I wished in some more exercises and more examples about the perfectum, imperfectum.
fun and learning at the same time. required a lot of time for studying to keep up, especially when we startdd to cover 2 chapters per week.
Great experience
enjoyed the classes very much but the last 4 lessons were reslly tough
Overall enjoyed the course found the last 3 lesson werre by far the hardest to learn
I learn really useful business terms in the course. Give me a good refresh of my English grammar. Teacher is extremely friendly and helpful. I like the courses. Thank you Julie ,thank you kick start!
I have learned not just grammar or theory but the feeling behind the business expression which it is my weak point in the use of the language so it was a good choice for me.
Very positive.
Very good and nice teacher, but the class level (peers) was below expectations. Will probably follow further preparation with teacher
Dear Michael, It’s good to hear you had such a positive experience with our teacher. Of course, in a group there will always be students with slightly varying levels for all the different language skills, but in fact all your peers were also at an Advanced level (they also did an intake test and the teacher assessed their level to be equivalent to yours). Furthermore, this course was a general Business English Course, not a Cambridge BEC Exam Preparation Course. For that, you would need to take private lessons, which suit some students better anyway, as they can focus more specifically on their personal needs. I heard from the teacher that you are interested in this option, so we will look forward to seeing you again at Kickstart soon. Kind regards, Kickstart School.
Goede cursus voor examen voorbereiden,met een goede docent!
This course was not what I was looking for as I dont need to do the NT2 exam. It was way too much grammar and rules to learn at once. The focus on grammar was so high that tge lessons ended up been very boring and complicated. Made me loose my interest in learning Dutch.
Dear Tais, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It comes as a bit of a surprise, however, to hear that that course was not what you expected, as we remember discussing with you what type of course this was before you enrolled. Whether a student is planning on taking the NT2 PII exam or not, it is indeed a challenge to reach this next level of Dutch (B2) and necessarily requires a structured revision of all grammar so that all the language skills have a solid foundation and can be further built upon from there. We hope that you can continue to practise your Dutch in a way that suits you better. All the best, Kickstart School.
De NT2 cursus was echt nuttig en Maria is een heel goed docent. ik heb veel geleerd!
Mijn doel was meer grammatica te leren en dat konde ok wel doen.
heel leuk en gezeilige sfeer
We learned practical and useful things rather than a lot of the technical and content that you would receive in some other course
Overall it has been good. I would like to have spent more time reviewing vowel combinations and syllable emphasis in the first lesson. I feel that the teacher is good, but the information in the book is not laid out well or intuitively.
Dear Scott, Thank you for your feedback. With regards to the pronunciation, the first lesson is always quite overwhelming, so we provide extra exercises on KickstartNet so that students have the opportunity to revise and practise pronunciation at home by listening and repeating all the different vowel, consonant and dipthong sounds in Dutch. Repeated listening and reproduction of sounds is the most effective way to improve pronunciation. We are sorry you found the book ‘Nederlands in Gang’ difficult to use. We have tried to help students navigate and make the best use of the book by producing our own handout of materials to accompany it, as well as a lesson plan to show where everything can be found. On the whole, this combination seems to work well for most of our students. All the best and we look forward to seeing you for the follow-on course! Kickstart School.
I think was too fast for me but I feel that I learned a lot
I think quizzes on the previous lesson in the beginning of each class would be very HELPFUL to get us to memorise things
Dear Rindy, Thanks for your comments. It is indeed useful to have quizzes every now and then, especially for things that you need to memorise, like vocabulary. That is why we have in-class vocabulary quizzes at the very start of most of the lessons, as well as extra quizzes and crosswords on KickstartNet so that you can practise in between the lessons. We would recommend to make use of the extra week of access to KickstartNet that you have to review all the material and let it sink in a bit more. All the best with your continued language learning! Kind regards, Kickstart School.
Overall nice!
Excellent teacher. Lovely rooms The chovokate cookies are a fantastic touch! Course materials are ok but could be much better. The most helpful grammar excercises are by far the ones in Coutinho, but don't always work to the students' advantage. For example, there is no way to self-check certain excercises, and for some others, if you check after entering each answer, Coutinho doesn't update the oversll score as you enter additional answers. My biggest disappointment is with the book. It's so important to learn the rules well, but they are all in Dutch, at a time when one diesn't yet fully understand Dutch. So the Kickstart handout is useful, although it doesn't cover all the topics. The grammar sections in the book don't stand-out enough; the layout could be better. And it would be better to have cross-references : for example in the various sections dealing with modal verbs (p. 81 and 135) and the various uses of "zullen", which are covered in different parts of the book.
Dear Julieta, Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback on the course. We appreciate it. With regards to the exercises on Coutinho, these are organised by Coutinho and can’t be changed by us. We have, however, put all the answers on KickstartNet as a back-up as well, so that you can check the answers yourself as you go through the exercises. We understand that it can be difficult to learn about grammar rules in Dutch and that is why we created our own Kickstart handout to supplement the book, which you mentioned was helpful. There are also some films on KickstartNet (which have been just released by the University of Groningen), which explain all the grammar from 'Nederlands in Gang' in English. Here is the link once more to help you with your continued language learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRjcWkC_qk&index=1&list=PLF-qJ8Ed0qHckDfrAirKY11vnMebbGOr2. We hope to see you again for the follow-on Stepping Stone II Course! Kind regards, Kickstart School.
I enjoyed and learned very much from this course, it definitively exceeded my expectations and I'm more than satisfied.
l like this cours and the way of teaching is very good
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