It's a good course I liked it
It was a very good course, the teacher is excellent as well as the material. I really enjoyed the lessons. It is also great that the group is small so you can really participate.
Very good teacher, nice material and structure.
It was a great chance to have this training as remote.
Good teacher and resources
I like the way the lessons are given and the materials. I enjoy the book and the English File Online exercises. I have a great time with my fellows and my teacher.
I have switched to Kickstart from another school and am so much happier here. The materials are great, the teachers are great and my Dutch has made great progress. Thank you!
This was I think the fourth Chinese course at Kickstart I attended. This time mainly reviewing what we had been studying during the previous course, but also paying more structured attention to reading and writing characters, which is great and fun but also rather time consuming if you aim to really master them - which I do. Same small group as in the previous courses, so every opportunity to ask questions. Teacher Xiyu is lovely, enthousiastic, patient and motivating. Truly interesting and enjoyable course, highly recommendable.
Already my 7th course at Kickstart School with our teacher Xiyu, was again a worthwhile experience. She keeps us motivated to study hard in class but also makes us do the necessary homework. The online learning platform KickstartNet is very helpful for that. I have enjoyed the course very much and I have made reasonable progress
Kickstart has good teachers, however the organisation is completely un-equipped to deal with students. I had covid and missed two lessons, and they made a big deal to give me these two lessons. In fact offered only one of them to redo. Their excuse is that teachers are freelancers. But then how does that become my problem? An individual course that you pay a lot, and you are completely disrespected in exceptional circumstances, like missing one because you were sick. I find this appalling, not client oriented, unprofessional and so on.
Dear Arlinda, We are sorry to read this review, we are of course always doing our best to make sure that our students are happy with our services and are so sorry that we did not succeed in this case! We are happy that by now we have come to an agreement that both the teacher and Kickstart will cover the cost of 1 lesson each, so the course is continuing as planned. We do indeed have a 24-hour cancellation policy for our private courses, which is to protect the time and income of our teachers since it would be hard for them to book another lesson with this short notice. The policy can be difficult for our private students and we are going to make sure to be even clearer in our communication, because we are always eager to prevent or solve any issues that might come up before they turn unpleasant. With this approach, we hope that we can make all our private students as happy with our school as our group students are!
Friendly, professional good teachers and course material
Excellent learning experience, but difficult to maintain due to the cost of private classes
I have enjoyed the course, a good teacher and good course material. When I signed up for this course I expected the course to be face to face, however, due to Covid-19 the course was given as an online course and I didn't expect that I would enjoy and appreciate this method of online learning so much. It's convenient although pronunciation can sometimes be a bit tricky via Zoom. But overall a nice course for beginners.
I have always really enjoyed your courses. Teacher Katie Hardwick is very good at teaching, and she always makes you feel very comfortable. I would like to do another course later.
Really enjoyed the fact that the program is very well organised. you know what you will get from the beginning and there is a plan at the beginning of every lesson. Elena (tutor) is always well prepared for the class and fast at responding our homework. Thank you! The program overall is a bit intensed. But I can understand that is necessary for language learning. Before sign up, you just need to mentally prepare yourself for this ;)
The class organization was thoughtful and thorough, with opportunities to improve on reading, speaking, and listening to the language. Class sizes were small enough to allow for personal attention and instruction, and the online as well as the printed exercises provided a lot of exercises for review and practice.
I like the course, but for the exercises in the books I miss more examples. Sometimes its described in Dutch and I did not get how to start
Very organized course, with a bit of everything (reading, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, etc.) Also very useful since all what we have learnt are things we can use in our daily lives in the NL. Intense but worth it
1. Excellent teacher, full of patience and teaching things in many different ways, always checking if everybody has understood. 2. The material, especially the book and the quizlet exercises of couthino help learn hundreds of words of vocabulary with little effort.
Good, prefer physical and not online course.
It was intensive for me as I work 40 hours a week.
I had a great experience with Kickstart, the online classes were interesting and had a good quality. The topics were varying and relevant, and I improved not only my grammar, but also understanding and speaking about many new topics. The teacher was excellent and very passionate. I improved my Dutch and additionally learned much about the Dutch culture.
Very good learning experience. Excellent teacher and amazing classmates. Lots of practice on speaking, vocabulary and grammar. Strong recommendations for any Dutch learner.
Professional courses delivered thoughtfully and creatively.
I always have a lot of fun in Paul's lessons - while also learning a lot. I appreciate that we learn about Dutch culture and that he always finds ways to make the lessons interesting. Speaking was a special focus this course and we all feel that we have made great improvements. Thank you Paul!
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