Program
We design each training programme to fit your employees’ needs. This ensures maximum effectiveness, with participants’ levels and learning goals at the core. The skills they want to learn or strengthen are integrated into targeted exercises and realistic role-plays. Possible focus areas include:
Learn Dutch: speaking, listening and conversational
- Conversation techniques and communication culture; formal and informal language.
- Develop Dutch speaking skills by practising situations drawn directly from daily work.
- Verbal skills: pronunciation, emphasis and intonation.
- Conversation techniques and how to take part confidently in work discussions.
Learn Dutch: reading and writing
- Grammar and sentence structure
- Vocabulary: social and work-related
- Common phrases for emails and letters
- How to formulate sentences and paragraphs
- Expressions and sayings, fixed word combinations and nuances in Dutch
Learn Dutch: intercultural differences in the workplace
- Dutch work culture
- Woring in multilingual teams
- Intercultural communication
We cover up-to-date and socially relevant themes in the lessons, and participants can contribute topics based on their own everyday experiences. For example: how do you start a conversation at the coffee machine? What do you say to your children’s teacher? How do you get by in the supermarket? Which words or phrases help you sound authentically Dutch? Participants are welcome to discuss any questions about the language or culture during lessons.