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(Private) Dutch Course for Children in Singapore (with a Dutch or Belgian parent) plus Remedial Teaching, if needed
From 2003 onwards, we have received more and more requests from Dutch and Belgian parents, residing in Singapore, to provide private Dutch language courses for their children, who are usually brought up with the English language as their mother tongue.
The majority of these children are attending International Schools in Singapore. The age of our young course participants is ranging from 9 to 15 years.
(NB: if your child is less than 9 years old, we are offering a special Dutch Immersion program; we use the same professional teaching aids, used by primary schools in The Netherlands: ‘Zwijsen’ teaching method: ‘Veilig Leren Lezen’: please click here to read more — in Dutch — about this proven successful teaching method.)
One-to-one lessons.
We currently provide one-to-one lessons only, conducted at either the private address of the teacher at Serangoon Green (Jalan Teck Kee or our Dutch Language Training Centre at Orchard Plaza.
*Remedial teaching.
Some parents request for remedial teaching, to make sure their child will overcome arrears in terms of Dutch grammar, spelling, reading skills, vocabulary and the meaning of proverbs while attending lessons at the HSL (Hollandse School), GESS (German European School) or UWC (United World College) in Singapore. We are using special educational software and other dedicated teaching aids to effectively coach these pupils.
Most of the parents are looking for a professional language course for their children, in such way that their kids will gradually develop great interest in the Dutch language.
Primarily, learning Dutch must be fun. We will always make sure that this is the case! Starting from there, it is much easier to keep children motivated to focus on learning the Dutch language. It is a phased process of building up trust and fellowship between the teacher and the young student.
To test their progress, we let the children work on the computer from time to time, guided by the teacher. On our laptops, we have hundreds of targeted exercises available.
We are using only tried and tested software, developed by seasoned primary education experts in The Netherlands. By practising much, children get soon very familiar with key grammar issues, thus they develop a good insight.
A fun-filled interaction between teacher and child.
We always make sure there are plenty of fun-filled moments during the lessons! For instance: we also use the computer to play word-games, specially designed for primary school children.
Furthermore, to increase your child’s Dutch vocabulary, we will be focusing on your child’s favourite hobbies from time to time, and talk about his or her adventures during the past week.
Based on this interaction between teacher and child, we playfully brainstorm, translate key words, and challenge each other with (for instance) exciting word games, drawings, puzzles, and other lively assignments.
Website building: an exciting way to enhance your child’s vocabulary and interest in Dutch.
Website-building is always an exciting process for children: all kids love to create their very own website. After all, it is a truly ‘hip’ thing to do! They can tell lots of stories about their adventures and favourite hobbies, or other subjects of their interest. The result is something very concrete: their own creation. Best of all: they can show it off: anytime, anywhere, to anyone.
We are using this excitement to make sure they will draft all kinds of texts in (simple) Dutch. (Please click here to view an example.)
Famous children’s book writers.
Once your child is ready for it, we will listen to nice short stories, compiled on audio-cd’s and written by famous writers such as Annie MG Schmidt, Tonke Dragt, Roald Dahl (Dutch version) and many more.
At the moment your child will understand more and more Dutch, we will watch the latest copy of the Dutch ’Youth Newscast’ (‘Jeugdjournaal’) every now and then: this is always a very recent recording (downloaded as MP4 from the Dutch ‘NOS’ Internet Page).
Rates:
We offer this versatile, interactive Dutch language course for children for only S$ 850/- per sequence of 10 lessons of 60 minutes each, inclusive of all teaching aids.
Please note that the mentioned fees are rates per participant, but for every additional participant, we offer a discount of 20%, so if you would like to have private lessons for two children at the same time, the total rates are S$ 1,275/- per sequence of 10 lessons*.
Course extension after ten lessons:
Depending on your wishes and your child’s progress, you can always decide to sign up for another round of 10 lessons.
>> Please note that we only work with sequences of 10 lessons each, not with any other arrangement. After each such sequence, you are free to stop, or to continue with another round.
Purchase of teaching aids
You will need to purchase our multi-media teaching aids: this will be a one-time payment of S$ 170/- regarding all teaching aids we are using*, inclusive of one audio-cd, plus one multimedia cd-rom.
As further enrichment, we will be using additional interactive and audio-visual material as well, but we will bring this along and we won’t charge anything for this.
Please contact our Language Course Co-ordinator Ms Dais Chan (9684 0356) to make an appointment for a free assessment of your child plus a discussion with the teacher, prior to your decision to sign up your child.
Thank you for your interest in our Dutch language course for children!
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* Payments made are non-refundable and non-transferable.
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For further enquiries: please call our co-ordinator Ms Dais Chan at 9684 0356 or teacher Matthieu Quere at 9687 0009 |
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