Johannes Simons

Awesome lesson

Had a great third lesson with Hans today. I am now a little less than 2 weeks away from my inburgerings exam and have been feeling anxious and overwhelmed by all the types of content to practice and also struggling with confidence in the speaking practice tests. Hans gave me great tips to ease my nerves and what areas to focus on in the coming week as well as worked with me live directly in one of the DUO practice tests and giving me direct feedback and tips in how I can answer the questions with ease and confidence and especially not to overthink it or try to give too complicated of an answer. Our lessons have been the perfect compliment to my self studies as well as some of his key grammar/spelling youtube videos.

Great lesson today with Hans. Just a few more days left until my exam and I've been feeling nervous. Hans helped give me encouragement and focus on goals for the next few days to continue to study and prepare for success. it was also helpful to run through practice exams together again today and have his feedback.

Johannes is clearly a master at what he does and made me very secure in how we’ll go forward. He doesn’t talk down to his students whatsoever, making me feel very trusted and intelligent.

Today was my last lesson with Hans before my inburgering exams tomorrow. as always I left feeling much less nervous and more confident in my ability to pass the test than I was before the lesson. Hans also gave me a lot of good tips to mentally/physically prepare myself for my test tomorrow (mostly by just resting) and and tackling it tomorrow/not overthink it. As someone with a lot of test anxiety, I really appreciated working with Hans as he not only has 20+ years experience teaching Durch, but knows the inburgering exam structure so well and has the ability to quickly and easily help you identify and master your week points, be confident in the key concepts, as well as give some nice pep talks. Really glad I found Hans and will definitely be recommending him to others looking for guidance as they study for the inburgering. Thanks Hans!

This was my first full hour lesson with Hans to prepare for my upcoming inburgering exam (A2 level). At our trial lesson he gave me a few areas to focus on and videos to watch on his youtube channel which were helpful and shared some resources for helping me focus on crucial grammatical and writing areas. In this lesson we reviewed what I had worked on since the trial lesson and any questions or confusion I had on those topics and Hans made sure to address any struggle points for me right away and we worked through the whiteboard function which helped a lot for visual learning. Hans also recommended what key types of vocabulary and phrases I should especially focus on for the exam speaking and writing portions and then we reviewed 5 or so writing excerpts I had done independently in a practice exam and he gave me feedback on the work as well as tips for keeping things simple and easy. Thanks Hans! Looking forward to our next lesson.