Would you like to be able to ask for information in shops, order meals in restaurants or ask for directions on the street? How about having basic social conversations? Connecting with your Dutch partner, in-laws, friends, neighbours, colleagues or with new Dutch people you meet at social events. Would you like to have a general understanding of what people around you are saying? And to be able to respond to that in simple but adequate ways? Then a Functional Fundaments Dutch Course – a Dutch course for beginners – is a great start for you! Sign up for a Free Dutch Course to find out more. You can take this course online or face-to-face.
We offer our Dutch courses online, face-to-face or as a combination of online and face-to-face sessions. This flexibility allows you to organise your Dutch language learning around your busy schedule. Our online CoBuild Connect Learning Space is at the heart of all of our courses. Here you will find all of the course content that will help you to further improve your Dutch outside your online or face-to-face sessions.
In both our contact sessions and learning space we mainly work task-based. This means that we will ask you to do practical and appealing tailor-made exercises and assignments to improve your basic Dutch listening, speaking, reading and/or writing skills for the real-life situations that are relevant to you.
Our Dutch courses for beginners are available as individual, duo and small group courses. Incompany courses are available on request. An optimal CoBuild Dutch course consists of a combination of face-to-face and online sessions.
However, a fully Dutch online course or a fully Dutch face-to-face course is also very well possible in most cases. Depending on your learning objectives and availability, you will be recommended a suitable amount and composition of sessions.
Since we encourage joint learning in a stimulating learning environment, we request you to form duos and groups with friends, colleagues, relatives, spouses as much as possible. A Dutch for beginners duo or group course can also be formed by fellow-participants of a Free Dutch Course. We will always make sure that the entry levels and the learning objectives of the participants match up. As with individual courses, the participants of duo and group courses can decide when to start their course and how to plan their course sessions.
With our CoBuild Connect Online Learning Space you will be enabled to continue your Dutch learning beyond contact hours with learning content that is 100% relevant to you! You will be offered a selection of tailor-made tasks (exercises and assignments) and references to other functional materials that will help you to (further) improve your Dutch. You will get written/spoken feedback on your task performances and after each contact session new learning content will be added to the learning space.
All Functional Fundaments Dutch Courses are preceded with a determination of your personal and specific learning objectives. Sign up for an online or face-to-face Free Dutch course to determine yours and to start learning some important basics of Dutch!
Please contact us if you are not able to make it to any of these courses, but still would like to meet with us.
We strongly believe that reaching a language level can never be a learning objective in its own right. In the end, it is all about being able to use the language whenever and wherever you are. We, therefore, focus on helping you to (further) improve your Dutch proficiency in a way that allows you to do the things that you would like to be able to do in Dutch, in specific situations. Therefore, all of our Dutch courses are preceded with a determination of your personal and specific learning objectives. Would you like us to help you formulate your personal and specific learning objectives?
Please be in touch with us for a Free Dutch Course.