This course takes place from 24 September 2024 until 16 January 2025. You can choose from the following two options:
Group B
- Course day and time: Tuesday & Thursday from 4.00 - 5.45 pm
Location: Online via the Virtual Classroom and always involves guidance from a teacher
Number of participants: min. 10 - max. 15
Group E
- Course day and time: Tuesday & Thursday from 4.00 - 5.45 pm
- Location: At our location in Nijmegen
- Number of participants: min. 10 - max. 18
If a lesson is cancelled, it will be rescheduled in the week following the last lesson.
Dutch is spoken as much as possible during classes. You should count on about six to eight hours of individual study per week.
Exam dates
The assessments will take place during the two final classes. Please note: you are only allowed to take the assessment if you have attended at least 80% of classes.
What will you learn in this course?
You will learn Dutch to intermediate level B1 in this intermediate course. This class focuses on the different skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing.
Reading
You can understand texts that mainly consist of high-frequency, colloquial or work-related language. You can understand descriptions of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.
Listening
You can understand the main points when listening to familiar topics that you regularly encounter at work, school, leisure, etc. when these are clearly spoken and pronounced in a standard dialect. You can understand the main points of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest, when speakers speak relatively slowly and clearly.
Conversations and speaking
You can handle most situations that you come across when travelling in an area where the target language is spoken. You can participate in conversations on familiar topics or topics of personal interest or related to everyday life without preparation (e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).
You can connect expressions in a simple way to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions. You can briefly give reasons and explanations for your opinions and plans. You can tell a story, or describe the plot of a book or film and describe your reactions.
Writing
You can write simple coherent texts on familiar topics or topics of personal interest. You can write personal letters describing your experiences and impressions.
Course materials
- Contact! Nieuw deel 3.
ISBN text book: 9789463920841
ISBN work book: 9789463920858
The course material can be purchased at Roelants bookstore. Course material is not included in the course fee.
