Amber van der Zalm
Certified NT2 teacher
Amber is a qualified teacher who has worked in Dutch education for over ten years. Since 2024 she has taught NT2 online to inburgeraars and state exam candidates through her own company, Samen Sterk in Taal. On this platform she writes and checks the exercises.
The facts
You can check everything below on her LinkedIn and her company website.
- Education
- Teacher training (pabo), Hogeschool Leiden (2016)
- Qualification
- Qualified primary school teacher, NT2 certified
- Experience
- Over ten years in education: primary school, vmbo and NT2 for adults
- Pupils and learners
- More than 1,000
- Own company
- Samen Sterk in Taal, KvK 77533216
- Where
- The Hague, lessons online
From the classroom to NT2
- Primary school teacher
In The Hague and Voorburg. Many of her pupils were learning Dutch as a second language.
- Dutch teacher in vmbo
A year teaching Dutch to teenagers in Rotterdam.
- Samen Sterk in Taal
Her own company: one-to-one NT2 lessons online for adults doing their inburgering or the state exam.
What Amber does on this platform
And what she does not. You should know who made what.
The exam exercises
She writes or checks every exercise before it goes live, with DUO’s format next to it.
Writing and Speaking
She writes the marking criteria. An AI model applies them to your answer, and Amber checks the gradings.
The guides
She reviews the Dutch text. The English and Arabic translations are machine-made and not reviewed by her. Every translated page says so.
Prefer personal guidance?
Amber also teaches one-to-one online through her company Samen Sterk in Taal: for inburgering, KNM and the NT2 state exam.
Practise with Amber’s exercises
Ten free Reading and ten free Listening questions, with an explanation for every question. No account needed.
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