Reviews voor Kickstart School

I've enjoyed the lessons so far, but unfortunately it's not as easy to practice the language a lot in an online forum, as we have to speak one by one, instead of speaking with each other. That's not the fault of the school or the teacher, but maybe it's useful feedback. A lot of homework, but the system works really well and it's great to be able to prepare well for each lesson beforehand - it makes learning go smoother and then it's less scary to practice during lessons.

I enjoyed the course and style of learning. I would recommend it to all students.

Very good. This gave me the basis of dutch language, and now I can make conversations with people dutch.

Overall it was good. As always, I learned new concepts, words, and dutch culture. It was very enjoyable. There could be some improvements, such as working in groups, having more time to talk with other students, but maybe the teacher saw that these types of activities where going to be hard with the students she had.

For me, this course was too intensive and short, I would like to have longer period for study and 1 lesson per week, and repeat material from previous lesson more often

Very good course in a very fast paced intensive learning. If you are a complete beginner and don't have a lot of time to dedicate you shouldn't go for the semi intensive. Otherwise, that's your course.

I really liked Kickstart course and especially Harreit, our teacher. Zijn is een geweldige leraar and ik leer meestel met haar.

I learn a lot in this course. I'm feeling more confident to keep learning to improve my dutch. Letty was an awesome teacher as well.

The course has met my expectations considering the amount of workload that 4h per week is. The study time needs to be proportional to keep up the level in class but it’s been a fast and good way of beginning my learning of Dutch (although as said, it requires a considered and consistent effort in a short time).

Small group lessons which were vital for interaction, felt like we covered quite a lot of material in a short time

Above average.

Loved the course and the teacher. The pace was really good for me - semi-intensive (2x per week) - so I really had to learn in order to keep up. The colleagues were great too, a nice bunch. The exercises, texts and homework were really good and I learned a lot! Course was good organised and the extra materials were very helpful.

Well understood

Everyone at the kickstart school is a pleasure to work with!

Like the pace and the content…it keeps you on your toes, Christine is patient and thorough. Big fan of the admin team too, prompt response and very helpful.

All was good! Links in the homework plan needs to be fixed however ;)

Great

We were lucky to have Dorine as a teacher. She helped us a lot with learning. Also, she made the most of Nederland in gang program. I personally think that this book provides very limited ability to learn and not very engaging. However, Dorine managed to overcome the limitations of the program and give so much more. Also I want to give a credit to the school. It was easy and nice experience. Thank you.

Very satisfied with the method and the way everything related to the course was organised. Will definitely continue learning Dutch with help by Kickstart.

Our son followed first an English summer course and continued then online once per week online. His language skills improved; the teacher was experienced, helpful, and flexible about alternative dates if necessary. Very recommendable.

Overall I have to say that it has been a positive experience. Sometimes I personally struggled to understand the grammar, and the way has been explained did not really helped. However, thanks to Jeannine I felt engaged and motivated to learn

Paul Avontuur is an amazing teacher. I really enjoyed all my classes and I learnt a lot during those 10 weeks.

Prior to starting this course I had struggled with some self study materials particularly with the listening and speaking side of things. I found this course and the focus on listening and speaking to be incredibly helpful in gaining confidence to speak it and also by offering a safe environment to practice with the class and teacher. Carine was the absolute highlight of the course, she did such a great job of encouraging us, teaching, supporting and correcting mistakes in a non discouraging way. Even after the first few lessons I felt comfortable practicing Dutch out and about and am looking forward to starting the next course.

I found the school's materials to be excellent addition to the main book, and the explanations given by the teacher were really helpful. However, the fast pace of the course may not be suitable for everyone, as it can be quite challenging to keep up with. School's administration was also very helpful with all my questions.

Het was erg goed en interessant. Ik kan nu veel beter Nederlands begrijpen en spreken. Ik denk ook dat programma is goed ontworpen. Paul, dank u wel voor alles. Ik zou de cursus aanbevelen.