Your colleagues and yourself can be trained by our native-speaking fully-qualified Dutch tutors at a time and location to suit you. Classes can take place any day, even weekends, and can happen in the morning, afternoon or evening. If the case may be that your home or office is not convenient, there is always the option to take your classes at the office of your teacher. Study books for the lesson are provided.
This set of Dutch tutorials are less specific and more targeted at those who want to get a range of different things from learning Dutch. Even though all novice students will cover survival Dutch: enough Dutch to make a visit to the country or make good contacts with the locals, but what do you do from there? It depends on your needs. Those who have benefitted from these lessons have been those moving or investing overseas, spouses of overseas nationals, people who love to travel all over the world, those interested in Dutch culture, and those who just want to pass a specific examination in Dutch.
These Dutch Lessons are intended for people who really need to learn Dutch to help make that difference in their work. For beginners, it will be useful to learn greetings and basic business etiquette, at higher levels reading and then writing become more important. Typical students include those involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where an additional language is required, and those working with international colleagues, academia and government. Even on our most basic lesson for Beginners, students should expect to end the lesson with basic Telephone Dutch and e-mail Dutch skills for communications as well as Survival Dutch required for short visits to a country.
If there are 2 or more of you with the same level of Dutch, the same targets within the language, and be able to study at the same time and location, then you'll be happy to know that these Dutch lessons can also be made available for Two-to-One Dutch Lessons or Small Group In-Company Dutch Lessons. Listen & Learn do not generally recommend classes of more than 6-8 people, although Taster lessons in Dutch can run with up to 12 people. Bookings must be made for all participants at the same time.
Dutch pronunciation is the main challenge for learners of the language - there are many guttural sounds and diphthongs
Afrikaans is not simply a Dutch dialect; it's a completely different language which evolved from Dutch
The Netherlands and Belgium are the two main hubs of Dutch speakers, and there are over 22 million speakers worldwide
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"Our native speaker qualified Dutch language teachers can train you and your colleagues at your office or home at a time to suit you. Classes can be any day of the week (even weekends) in the morning."
Brookhaven
Over 450,000 people live in the growing city of Brookhaven, New York making it one of the fifty most populous cities in the U.S. Research scientists from around the world come to Brookhaven to study at the world-renowned Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Stony Brook University and Health Sciences Center. These facilities and the people who work and study there have transformed this once tiny town into a burgeoning source of technology, innovation and science. With corporate growth and an educational and research community, learning a new language can be quite beneficial in Brookhaven. In addition to help individuals broaden one's horizons, studying a second language is a way to open up new doors in an individual's career.