Dutch course

Dutch language training for beginners

Learning Dutch is a great adventure. When you have just arrived in the Netherlands, you find yourself in a country full of people who seem to be speaking gobbledygook. Yet, after a week of Dutch lessons during a Dutch language course at Language Institute Regina Coeli, you will be decoding the language, you will have discovered the parallels Dutch shares with other languages and you will have built up a substantial foundation of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. As a result, a whole world will open up before you!

What does a beginner’s Dutch language course look like?
Regina Coeli provides tailor-made individual Dutch language courses so you can achieve optimum results.  Your team of trainers puts together a logical programme for you. Every day you learn new things which you then practice in the multimedia and put to use in conversations with your team of trainers and the other course participants. Every day is well a well-rounded whole, allowing you to see progress and immediately apply what you have learned.

The results
At Regina Coeli you can learn Dutch in a week’s time. As a beginner you learn the basics during a Dutch language course:

• You will be able to introduce yourself.
• You can have a simple conversation in Dutch, make plans and appointments, ask questions etc.
• You build vocabulary which is important for you personally.
• You learn Dutch pronunciation and word stress.
• You lay a good foundation in grammar: verbs, definite and indefinite articles, sentence structure.

The end result depends on your native language, the number of languages you already speak and your starting level. We carefully tailor each training programme to the individual learning style and needs of the course member to learn Dutch in the most effective way.

Follow-up options for your Dutch language course
Can you learn to speak a language perfectly in a week? No, unfortunately not. Language is best learned by using it, by staying curious about it and by receiving immediate feedback. For that reason, most course members follow a longer training trajectory to learn Dutch. The choice is yours. After your Dutch language course at Regina Coeli you can always book follow-up training.

Business Dutch

If you have to or want to use Dutch in the workplace, that can put your abilities to the test. If you have not yet adequately mastered Dutch, you will notice that you are not able to be as effective in the Dutch language as you are in your native language. How do you make it clear that you know a thing or two when you cannot find the right words in Dutch? And how do you come across when you deliver a presentation which is strong in terms of content, but peppered with grammatical errors?

What you need is a Dutch language course which allows you to create a Dutch version of the specialist you are in your own language. It is therefore not only important that you use the Dutch language well, but that you can communicate, cooperate and do business in a Dutch way.

The programme of your Dutch language course
Prior to your Dutch language course, you have an in-depth conversation with a Dutch trainer in which you determine the outcome you would like to see and the design of the programme. If achieving your objectives is your sole priority, we determine how many Dutch lessons you need and advise you on the best way to make that happen. It could be that you would like to work on your Dutch language skills for an entire week. We then estimate which of your objectives you will be able to reach within that amount of time.

Specially-designed training
Very specific objectives require specially-designed training. Language Institute Regina Coeli creates an individual Dutch language course for you in which you are coached by a team of Dutch language trainers. Learn Dutch in the most effective way.

Aspects of your Dutch language course could include:

• expanding your vocabulary based on your position, organisation and sector. 
• learning to deliver powerfully persuasive presentations in Dutch. 
• participating effectively in meetings.
• carrying on business conversations in Dutch. 
• applying the grammar rules more consistently.
• working on your pronunciation.
• improving your writing skills.

The results of your Dutch language course
At the end of your Dutch language course at Language Institute Regina Coeli, you will not only have reached your personal goals but also have enriched your life. By spending a week learning Dutch, you learn a great deal about your personal effectiveness and expand your cultural tool kit.

Language Institute Regina Coeli is renowned for its intensive individual language courses—the ‘week with the Nuns’, but did you know that so much more is possible? Below you can learn more about our most popular types of courses.

Intensive individual courses
Your skills improve by leaps and bounds in a five-day course because you can fully concentrate on learning the language. You can take this training form from Monday through Friday, or spread it out over multiple weeks. You can also add a day or take a shorter course.

Language coaching
You can also take a short course targeted to what you do in business or daily life. Work on sharpening up your presentation for two half-days, or noticeably improve your writing skills over the course of multiple days.

In-company programmes
We also deliver in-company courses. A trainer comes to your chosen location to train one or more employees. If you want your employees to have an intensive group programme, we can design a programme for them that takes place at our institute in Vught.