Dutch Absolute Beginners

Our Beginners courses from A0-A2 with De Opmaat.

Once you have successfully completed the Beginners 1 course, you will be able to:

• make simple announcements and ask questions about everyday topics
• introduce yourself, ask and answer questions about yourself and others: where do you live? what is your name? what time is it?
• count, spell, tell the time, order something, suggest something to do and respond to

What grammar will be covered during the course?

• conjugation of verbs
• word order sentences: main sentences, question sentences and also main sentences with inversion
• possessive pronouns
• negation
• the plural form
• modal verbs

IMPORTANT to know before booking a Beginners course...

• Lessons are taught (mostly) in Dutch! That's right - even our Beginners 1 course. Our teachers are very experienced in teaching foreign languages to beginners, so they will use simple instructions to help you become familiar with the language.
• Our aim is to immerse you in the language so that you feel comfortable around it. You will slowly build an understanding of everything you hear, and it will encourage you to try using the language yourself.
• You are not expected to understand every word at the start, but as the teacher repeats certain phrases and uses body language and visual clues, you will start acquiring the language at a lot faster rate than if we taught it in English.
• If you need your teacher to explain something in your own language / in English, then you are very welcome to ask them - try asking them in Dutch!

At A1 level you can:

• Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases in Dutch.
• Introduce yourself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as: where you live, people you know and things you have.
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

What you get

After successful completion of the course, you can breakthrough to the next stage with a basic vocabulary and solid grammar foundation. And to top it off, you get an ->A1 (for Beginners 1) or an A1 (for completing Beginners 1+2) language proficiency certificate as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).