TESTIMONIALS
INTRODUCTION
When our prospective students go looking for information about our school and the TOEFL Preparation course
that we offer, they want to know more than how much we charge. They also want to know what kind of service we provide,
and they want to get an idea for what kind of experience they will have with our school. Therefore, they go looking for
information about what others have had to say. The most common source of this information online is feedback. The comments
and suggestions of our students and alumni are very important to us since they help us make the educational process at Terra
Nova as close to perfection as possible. It is also very important that all our prospective students see this feedback here,
which proves the educational process at Terra Nova to be truly democratic and open for constructive criticism. This page contains reviews and testimonials submitted by our
students in the 2004-2005 academic year. We would like to thank them all most sincerely for sharing their ideas,
opinions, experiences, and feelings. We deeply appreciate their contributions!
2004-2005 ACADEMIC YEAR
From: Viorica Hanchevici
Date: June 25, 2005
Terra Nova's TOEFL Preparation class has a lot of advantages over
the English classes of other English courses and schools. The
first advantage of the class is a lot of new and interesting
information that the students are provided with. Andrei (the
teacher) is really smart and handsome; it is the second
advantage. The friendly atmosphere that is created in class helps
to raise your mood even if you do not feel good or are very tired
after a hard day. Another important thing about the class is that
the teacher speaks only English with his students; there is no
Romanian or Russian, which is just great. It makes all students
think only in English, which significantly improves the process
of learning. The class is the coolest English class I have ever
attended!!! Thanks a lot, Andrei!
Best wishes,
Viorica,
TOEFL Preparation (Spring 2005).
From: Nikita
Date: June 24, 2005
Here is the end of the spring trimester of the TOEFL Preparation
class. The time that I spent here flew so fast and it seems like
we just started this class some days ago. This class gave me a
lot of useful knowledge for TOEFL and for myself. I met here new
and interesting people. One of them is our TOEFL teacher Andrei.
He is a cool guy. I like how he organized this class. I like that
during the class we were engaged not only in studying English
grammar, vocabulary and style, writing essays and listening to
dialogues, conversations and minilectures but also in speaking on
a lot of different topics. That's why I never felt bored after
class. Andrei is a very clever man and it is very interesting to
speak with him. I saw how he was trying hard to answer all our
questions (sometimes these questions were very silly and naive).
Andrei is a very hardworking man and that explains how he
achieved everything in his life.
Well, in general I would like to say that these two and a half
months were very interesting for me and I will never be sorry for
the time that I spent in Terra Nova English Language Center.
Also, I would like to wish Andrei more good students, good luck
and new achievements in his life.
Best regards,
Nikita,
TOEFL Preparation (Spring 2005).
From: Iulia
Mandîș
Date: June 23, 2005
Dear prospective students!
Even though 2 months and a half is a short period of time, I can
assure you that there is a lot of knowledge to acquire and things
to enjoy in the TOEFL Preparation class. I am sure that you will
remember this class during all your life.
One important thing which I liked very much was the visits that
you can pay every Saturday to watch movies, check your essays or
do some additional exercises to prepare for the TOEFL test. Your
ability to pass TOEFL will also be checked twice at the end of
the course. The modal tests will look almost exactly the same as
the real TOEFL test, no cheating, no extra-time and no other
information, so prepare yourselves. There is also a skilled
teacher who will answer, with all wisdom and politeness, whatever
questions you have about TOEFL, American life, economics,
politics, social issues, nature, and so on.
If you have time, you can also borrow (free of charge) books and
videotapes in English and subtitled. And the last thing is that
if you are an industrious student, you will get a certificate of
achievement and will visit the National Museum of Ethnography and
Natural History of the Republic of Moldova as a bonus, so don't
lose your precious time, study hard, and everything will be
great.
Iulia Mandîș,
TOEFL Preparation (Spring 2005).
From: Elena Ţurcanu
Date: June 15, 2005
Dear all!
The first thing I wanted to say is that I really enjoyed each
Advanced Conversation class and I also want to thank Andrei for
being tolerant with all of us and especially with me, as he
considers me to be a difficult teenager, while in fact I am
not.
The most important reason why I decided to join the class is
communication. After having attended your class, I have started
to feel more comfortable in our cruel world and have become more
sociable and tolerant. Despite many important personal qualities
that I developed in myself, I found out many interesting things,
I got a lot of new information. I talked on different topics
sharing my opinions with the other students and finding out what
the others think.
And the last thing I wanted to mention here is that I made new
friends, met lots of good people here, especially our teacher who
taught us many good things, which we will definitely use in our
daily life. He gave us good pieces of advice and a firm shoulder
of help when we were in need, which determines him as a friend
indeed and a tolerant and generous person who really cares about
his students.
In conclusion I want to say that I really had a good time spent
with all of you guys, I love you all. :)
Elena Ţurcanu,
Advanced Conversation (Spring 2005).
From: Olya and Yurii
Date: June 5, 2005
Our dearest, dearest friends!
Unfortunately, at the last lesson we forgot to tell you that
we're leaving this Tuesday. We will be out of the city for the
rest of the summer holidays, but we'll be back at the beginning
of September. See you then. :)
We can't live without our favorite Advanced Conversation class.
:) We are already missing you. We wish you the best summer
holidays.
Sincerely yours,
Olya and Yurii,
Advanced Conversation (Spring 2005).
From: Andrei Cebotari
Date: May 22, 2005
Hello namesake!
Just wanted to write a couple of nice words. What I want to say
is that everything is cool and fine, I like your class very much
and I am not the only one who thinks in this way.
See ya in class soon,
Andrei,
TOEFL Preparation (Spring 2005).
From: AndersoN
Date: April 2, 2005
Hello Andrei!
I am one of your future students. It took me quite a while to
explore your website (a part of it, actually). It is very
impressive, I must say. How can you be interested in so many
things at once?
From: Irina Oprea
Date: February 01, 2005
Hello everybody!
First of all, I would like to thank Andrei for this wonderful
website. It is important not only for those who want to visit his
courses, but also for those who have already been studying at
Terra Nova English Language Center. I think that this website can
be used as a good source of information as well as just for
pleasant time spending.
In my experience, Andrei's TOEFL class, which I took in fall
2004, was very interesting and informative. Besides the TOEFL
preparation book, there were a lot of useful grammar and style
related handouts and tons of home assignments. In addition to
this, there were a lot of different activities in class, we
discussed many things, talked about Andrei's US experience, which
was very helpful not only for taking the TOEFL test but also for
understanding the Americans and their life style and values. The
Advanced Conversation class I am currently taking is very
interesting too. It requires a lot of my participation in
different in-class activities and I enjoy doing it. At the
lessons we learn and use new and useful vocabulary. I have
already learned a great deal about plants and animals (Andrei's
wide-ranging educational background seeps through his teaching
English :).
Let me use this opportunity to wish you all patience and hope in
preparing for the TOEFL test and good luck in taking TOEFL.
Best,
Irina,
TOEFL Preparation (Fall 2004) and Advanced Conversation (Spring
2005).
From: Alex Erhan
Date: January 29, 2005
Dear Andrei,
You've got a good website full of interesting and useful
information. Moreover, you've run a very important course for
those people who want to take the TOEFL test with excellent
scores and enter a university or a college in an English-speaking
country. I appreciate your mission. It is extremely important
that we have this wonderful opportunity here in
Chișinău. Your TOEFL Preparation and Advanced
Conversation classes are just great.
With all my respect,
Alex,
TOEFL Preparation (Fall 2004).
From: ShuraM
Date: January 28, 2005
Congratulations! It's a great site: stylish, modern, and
cool-looking.
From: Alina Markoch
Date: January 23, 2005
I like our new web site. It is very nice, interesting,
fascinating, informative, cognitive, helpful, etc.
Alina,
TOEFL Preparation (Fall 2004).