Intermediate (A2 – B1)

What will I learn?
During an intermediate course you will learn essential grammatical skills and important vocabulary in order to have more advanced conversations and discussion about everyday life situations. Besides, we will focus on more work-related conversations, tailored to your specific workfield. After this course you will generally be able to safe yourself in an environment where people only speak Dutch. Part of this course is to learn how to describe your experiences, expectations, dreams and ambitions using coherent reasoning. Therefore the majority of the class time you will practice these kind of conversations in groups. (Grammatical) subjects during this course are: Compound sentences, writing of formal letters, typical Dutch expressions, degrees of comparison, use of intonation and ‘speaking language / abbrevations’.

How long?
A regular Intermediate course runs for 10 weeks with weekly 2-hour classes. Three of these classes will be ‘real-life’ excursions where we will go and do a fun social thing while practicing our Dutch, like a city tour, thrift shopping for Dutch books, ice skating or a Dutch food tasting class, you name it! During exam weeks there won’t be any courses and a free catch-up class is included. Classes are of a maximum of 8-10 people.

Intense intermediate course
A more intensive intermediate course is also possible, which runs for 14 weeks with 1,5 hour classes twice a week. The benefit of such a course is that you have more contact hours and the progress of your Dutch is faster. Same topics will be covered, but just more intensively.

When and were?
Generally these courses start at the end of September or at the end of January. However, courses can start whenever we have a group of at least 8 participants. We have several offline locations in Amsterdam, The Hague/Leiden, Utrecht and Groningen. Online education is always possible on request.

Course fee?
The course fee for the regular intermediate course is 375,- including all the modules, books and the free catch-up class. Special discounts apply for students of specific student associations and residents of certain living corporations.

Intense intermediate course
The course fee for the intense intermediate course is 675,- including all the modules, books and the free catch-up class. Special discounts apply for students of specific student associations residents of certain living corporations.