Program
Dutch for Expats (NT2)
We always tailor our workshops to the participant’s specific needs based on interviews, intakes and example texts. For example:
Speaking skills
- Oral proficiency: pronunciation, stress and intonation
- Conversation and register: formal and informal language
- Vocabulary: social and work-related
- Grammar and syntax
- Listening skills and comprehension; responding to your conversation partner
- Participating in meetings, presenting your own views
Writing skills
- Verb tenses, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, spelling and sentence structure (compound sentences)
- Vocabulary and idiomatic expressions: figures of speech and sayings, fixed word combinations, word meanings, lexical variation and linguistic nuance.
- Structuring sentences and paragraphs
- Writing letters, emails or longer texts
- Intercultural communication
- Introduction to Dutch culture and dealing with cultural differences