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Annemieke Luijckx, taaltrainer

Annemieke Luijckx, taaltrainer

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
— Geoffrey Willans
 

I have contacted Annemieke with the request to teach my international team members at my company the Dutch language in our office. After the first lesson, I knew she was an excellent choice. All my colleagues were very positive and enjoyed her class. Not only is she very professional and experienced, her classes are also fun and diverse. Now that the course is finished, my colleagues start speaking Dutch and they want to continue the classes with Annemieke.

Boaz Shkolnik
Chief Operating Officer
Yieldr Central Sales

I am a Spanish postdoc working at the University of Amsterdam since two years ago and I wanted to improve my Dutch level, specially my speaking skills. A former student of Annemieke had already told me about Annemieke and I decided to contact her. I have been a student of Annemieke Luijckx for the period January-April 2017, following an individual course of Dutch language (intermediate level), in order to prepare the NT2 exam that I want to take this year. Since our first lesson together, Annemieke showed that she is an excellent teacher. First of all, because she really focused on my weak points, which in my case were related to the correct pronunciation of the Dutch language and part of the grammar. Besides, she always prepares the lessons very well, with specific exercises to solve the troubles that she finds during the correction of the homework.
She has a broad collection of material (books and audio) and she always encourages and motivates you to further improve your skills. Being ready to participate in conversations in another language/culture is not easy, but Annemieke always gives very good advice about how to do it. She also masters Spanish and English and she is very nice, cheerful, dynamic and polite.
I would really recommend her as a teacher of the Dutch language for foreigners. I have really learned a lot with her.

Alejandro Monton

Annemieke is a great teacher! She is nice, patient and understanding. In only 60 hours she taught us a lot and we are able to continue learning Dutch on our own! She also encouraged us to use Dutch outside the classes. I would recommend her to anyone!

Paula Pintaric

Annemieke has been a private teacher for a small group in my office, and was a very patient and compreensive teacher, always open to teach "non motivated" people from different nationalities, after work. After these lessons, I feel I have now the basis to continue my fight on learning dutch, and definetely Annemieke was very helpful on this. I won´t hesitate on recommend her services to anyone. If you are looking for a teacher that challenge yourself and always keep a positive word and a smile in her face, so you found that person! :)

Rita Fereira

We are taught Dutch in Amsterdam every Monday and Thursday. Annemieke is a very nice and patient teacher. At the beginning, I have zero background of Dutch language. After months of study, I can read and understand most of the letters received and simple articles of newspaper. This is a huge improvement for me!

Wang Yi

Annemieke is very patient, friendly and asks for your feedback. She adapts her lessons based on what you need and want to achieve from the lesson. Without even noticing, after a while I was able to speak way more Dutch than before thanks to her classes and advices. She is a great Dutch teacher. She

Dario Penas

Annemieke has been my private teacher of Dutch during the past two months for a rather intensive course before my staatsexamen NT2-II. We have been practicing speaking by using specific exercises as well as through normal conversation. Also, we have done written exercises with longer texts as homework and grammar exercises.

Annemieke has a great knowledge of the Dutch language and was always able to answer my questions about grammar or the correct use of words in a professional way. Furthermore, she is very engaged and really made an effort to find the best way for me to learn Dutch and to challenge me at my level. She made me realize that there are many ways to keep yourself busy with learning a language beside working with your text book. Therefore, she would also make suggestions of books to read, television series or movies to watch and webpages to use, which was all very useful and inspiringIf you are looking for a teacher with a true passion for languages, old school know-how about grammar and style and a straight forward attitude, you should choose Annemieke!

Mette Krarup

 

I had the pleasure of being Annemiekes student for 2 courses and I couldn't be happier. She is a lovely teacher with a great experience in teaching dutch. I'm glad the company I work for chose her to teach us dutch. Her english is incredible and the way she has to teach dutch is very unique. Our classes were at 6 pm and despite the tireness of the day-work, she was capable of keeping us students interested and motivated. I truly hope we are going to continue with the dutch classes and that she will be our teacher again! Last but not least, is that I can still contact her via email with questions or anything else related to dutch language. This is a very import point for me because I can always be sure that she will take the time to give the best answer possible.

Davide Berdin

I'm glad I had found Annemieke on Marktplaats when I was looking for an English teacher. She is a very good and nice teacher. Her lessons are versatile and well adapted to the student. Beyond her own les material she also has a lot of tips for useful online exercises. It's a shame I have to stop now with lessons for a while, but I'm not done yet. I will definitely come back to Annemieke when I will start my lessons again.

Annabelle

When I first arrived in the Netherlands with only a few basic Dutch phrases I looked for a course that would give me a real boost. I took a three-month group course in Dutch with Annemieke at the University, and in that short time my knowledge and my confidence increased enormously. We covered both everyday Dutch situations and more academic vocabulary, using a wide range of supporting materials on a variety of topics, including popular culture, Dutch cultural norms, fine art and poetry. Annemieke used written texts, videos and audio clips as the basis for really interesting and useful lessons, and the grammar (which can be a real challenge for native English speakers!) never felt forced or dry. The group was made up of students with varying levels of Dutch, and I was impressed with how much we all benefited from the course despite that. Annemieke was also really helpful in answering my questions during the course.
She is extremely reliable, and her knowledge of the language and of different teaching methods is extensive. Her English is absolutely fluent and she also speaks other languages, though she never let us be lazy and fall back on our native languages if we knew the Dutch words! I recommend Annemieke to anyone wanting to learn or improve their Dutch. 

Anne Wendrich

Annemieke has been helping me to improve my intermediate Dutch for the past few months and friends and family have started to notice the difference! As a British expat, married to a Dutchman, I had got 'stuck' at a certain level and wanted to use my Dutch professionally. Annemieke's tailor-made, relevant and, above all, enjoyable lessons have helped me up to that next level.

Penny Vegter

Annemieke is a lovely teacher. Ik heb nu ongeveer 10 lessen gehad bij Annemieke en dit bevalt erg goed. Naast dat ze goed les geeft is ze eerlijk, doortastend en denkt ze mee met mij. Ik werk fulltime en Annemieke is hierin flexibel: ze geeft les in de avonduren en we doen skypegespreken. Dit werkt voor mij heel prettig. Ze heeft lesmateriaal op verschillende niveau's en past haar methode aan op jouw wensen. Wat Annemieke ook doet, dit maakt haar uniek, is haar leerlingen veel zelfvertrouwen geven. Hierdoor heb ik met veel zelfvertrouwen een presentatie gegeven in het engels voor een corporate bedrijf en ik kreeg de job. Ik beveel Annemieke zeker aan.

Janneke van Doremalen
Samsung

Annemieke has been my dutch tutor for a few months (I'm an american expat) and she has been terrific. The lessons are interesting and she cutomizes them for my interests, goals and level (beginner!). Annemieke is very experienced and skilled, and lovely to work with, always on time and very professional. I have made a lot of progress in the short time we have worked together, which is no small feat given how difficult it is to learn a new language as an adult... I highly recommend her.

Larry Scott

Annemieke is a great inspiring teacher. She has experience working with students of various levels so is very good at personalizing program to the individual or a group. She is using a lot of materials about dutch art and history, so her lessons are very engaging. In a time we worked together I was able to improve both my vocabulary and grammar and would definitely recommend taking a lanugage course with Annemieke!

Alexandra Popova,
SDL Tridion