Intensive private crash courses Dutch for beginners and advanced learners
Learn Dutch fast: made to measure one to
one courses, all levels from scratch up to C2. Intensive private crash courses with Richard van Egdom. For executive managers, diplomats,
professors, medical
doctors, lawyers,
engineers and other higher educated who want to learn Dutch or improve
their proficiency as fast, good and lasting as possible. Full immersion residential
learning Dutch retreats or
online.
In 5, 7 or 9 days? Starting from scratch? Or
improving your proficiency within such a short time? In a lasting way?
For an higher educated that's possible! All you need is:
5-, 7- or 9-days Learn Dutch Retreats with Richard van Egdom
Differences with English your course focuses on
Learn Dutch fast
Full immersion residential and almost as efficient online
An amazing experience
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Contact Richard? Feel free to mail mail richard@learning-dutch.com
5-,
7- or 9-days Learn Dutch Retreats with Richard van Egdom
Learning Dutch fast? In one week only? Indeed, if English or any other Germanic language is your mother
tongue or a second language you're already proficient in. If you
want to learn Dutch fast you won't need more than
a 1 week intensive Dutch course to learn Dutch.
A 5, 7 or 9 day full immersion
Dutch language crash course with
Richard van Egdom an experienced
dedicated native Dutch language teacher suffices. Starting from scratch you get up
to level A2 on the
European Language Proficiency
Scale
in one week.
A2 is the level you need for everyday conversation with colleagues,
neighbors friends or in-laws. This includes everyday vocabulary, all
you need to know about correct Dutch syntax, standard (not Hollandic or
Belgian) pronunciation
and grammar.
Once you're level A2, you're able to progress on
your own learning Dutch more and more through daily conversation, listening radio, watching
TV or surfing the web.
But once you experienced Richards way of teaching you may prefer
Richard to coach you up to C1 via, B1 and B2 in about 1 year.
A one week immersion Dutch course?
No,
a private intensive immersion Dutch course,
residential or online 'Learn Dutch Retreat'. All lessons one-to-one,
fully adapted to your needs, goals, interests and learning style. You
almost only hear, read
and talk Dutch. Looks tough. Is tough, the first hours. Then you
discover how this is amazingly efficient, necessary and sufficient
to get your brain switching to creative dissatisfaction mode.
As you
are an higher educated you know by experience that giving in to
creative dissatisfaction your brain (you) without voluntary
interfering (would be
contra-productive !) starts discovering links to context,
relationships, structures, differences, ... starts guessing,
grasping and ends up understanding. Richards step by step
approach is a most efficient
conversation and client centered method. It's the answer to "How to learn Dutch fast?"
Testimonials.
These very intensive Dutch language courses are crash courses : focusing on learning to understand and speak Dutch fast and good. Learning to be fluent (the right words, correct sentences, right standard pronunciation) about every day topics and added news topics you are interested in. Starting to think in Dutch from the first hour on : about things you like, want or need to talk and share about with your colleagues, neighbors, friends, partner, in-laws, ... . Your and their work, hobbies, interests, ideas, goals, experience, ... .
If you are a beginner: Step by step up to A2 in 5, 7 or 9 days according to your learning
pace. You get the Dutch
everyday vocabulary and
proficiency you are looking for, learning at your
pace, as fast and efficiently as you can ... . After only 1 week full immersion
Dutch course with Richard students generally end up A2
level. = Able to understand, speak and
communicate fluently. Able to talk with your partner, friends
or colleagues about daily topics you need to be able to talk
about. You learn that Dutch you need to know. Those words, phrases
and sentence constructions you need to be able to talk about what's
important to you.
Learning Dutch this way is not schoolish. You only learn the useful grammar
one really needs.
If you already master A2 or beyond go for a
made to measure advanced course:
Working up to the level you want,
focusing on:
broadening the particular vocabulary you need,
understanding more fluently, conversing more easily,
expressing
reasoned opinions, building lines of reasoning,
capturing the essentials of complex texts and speeches or during technical discussions
in your specialty,
communicating spontaneously and fluently in Dutch with your
students, colleagues, patients, friends, in-laws, ... .
You learn Dutch that fast because staying or projecting to stay in a Dutch speaking country you want to be able to integrate and have more sharing real human contact. You don't need to stay an outsider. It's much more rewarding and pleasant to get involved, loved and appreciated.
Direct link to residential Learn Dutch Retreats or to as efficient online crash courses.
Contact Richard? Feel free to mail richard@learning-dutch.com
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Differences with English
your course focuses on
Dutch pronunciation : f.ex. The 'u' vowel as pronounced in Dutch doesn't exist in English. It's necessary to focus on. Taking some time training your ears, some humoristic exercising and a bit of self-discipline. To be easily understood you need to get the difference between short and long vowels, without diphthongizing. Long vowels rhythm words and sentences in Dutch. That's uncommon in English. Fortunately Dutch pronunciation is much more phonetic and spelling much more regular : while starting to read Dutch texts on topics you're interested in, with Richard's help, you'll quickly grasp those regularities. Although what you learn is Standard Dutch pronunciation, you'll get familiar with major varieties in accent too (click on the map below).
Living Dutch sentence structure and word order : That piece of non conjugated verb at the end of Dutch sentences is a bit strange, isn't it? It's usual both in Dutch and German when talking about past events. Talking in Dutch about those topics you're really interested in, you'll grasp Dutch sentence structure quickly. Simple subordinate clauses are quite often used in spoken Dutch. One idea, one sentence. That's necessary to be easily understood, as it is in English.
Essential Dutch grammar : Focusing on studying grammar and exercising may be a usual way for teachers to get along with a class. Maybe you already learned some Dutch that way. It's useful : it helps reading and understanding a Dutch text at your pace. When you've got all the time you need. But it's not that helpful if you are involved in real life conversation. You're probably lacking familiarity with spoken Dutch and native speaker's variations in pace, rhythm, pronunciation and accent. Richard hands you the Dutch grammar you need the moment you need it during daily live Dutch conversations. The presence at diner, at residential courses, of other native speakers familiarizes with real live differences in spoken Dutch. That way you learned your mother tongue. Natural immersion, one to one lessons and your commitment are the easiest and fastest way to learn Dutch in 1 week only.
Contact Richard? Feel free to mail richard@learning-dutch.com
Learn
Dutch fast
Participate in making your intensive Dutch language course as intensive and efficient
as possible: Free yourself as much as possible - totally
would be most efficient - from any contact with any other language
but Dutch.
Be aware you really need those 2 to 3 hours a day
extra to review, study, reread and absorb what you learned. Enough time to rest and sleep is necessary too to
really integrate what you learned.
To learn Dutch starting from scratch or boost your proficiency one level up in 5, 7 or 9 days you need to be able to concentrate on learning Dutch
only.
Organize your week in a way you
don't need
more than 1 hour a day for phone calls, mails etc. in any other language. The reason
is the needs of your learning process. Learning a new language is a most brain
resources demanding activity : your brain scanning the context
continuously to grasp. Interruptions of that ongoing learning Dutch process would be contra productive : your brain would need to start all over again. That
takes up to
20' each time.
Contact Richard? Feel free to mail richard@learning-dutch.com
Full
immersion residential and almost as efficient online
Residential courses: are the easier way to
organize your 'Learning Dutch Retreat'. Courses take place at
Averbode Abbey's guesthouse. A quiet place surrounded by forests and
moor, study and concentration friendly in a Dutch-speaking environment.
Other guests will address you in
Dutch = more opportunities to train in real situations. You get to
know Dutch-speakers their habits, humor, mentality and social
grammar better.
Residential Dutch courses offer other possibilities of
interaction in Dutch during your free time too.
Online courses: retire to a study friendly, if possible Dutch speaking, environment to concentrate, study and devote 5, 7 or 9 days to learn and get fluent in our language. Organize to be able to rehearse at least 3 hours a day without being disturbed. And these intensive full immersion online courses will be almost as efficient as a residential.
The beginners course aims
to get up to level A2 in 1 week starting from scratch.
Once you master A2 level, advanced courses to realize B1,
B2, C1 or even C2 are made to measure
to learn the specific vocabulary you need.
For optimal results - both residential and online - make sure to organize your 'Learning
Dutch Retreat'
in a way not to be disturbed by other tasks, responsibilities or
worries that would divert you from focusing on learning our
language.
Direct link to
residential Learn Dutch Retreats or to as efficient
online crash courses.
Contact Richard? Feel free to mail richard@learning-dutch.com
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An amazing experience
Getting fluent in Dutch in such a short
time is
a fascinating experience of your natural innate learning processes too.
This way
of learning Dutch fast is
natural. That's why it's efficient and lasting. Vocabulary, good pronunciation
and sentence melody, grammar, Dutch syntax, ..., are no goals but tools
allowing you to understand and speak Dutch, interchange about your interests.
It's even an interesting different way of being in the world you discover.
Through full immersion you discover yourself talking and thinking in Dutch about what you're
involved in.
As a result you may even start dreaming in our
language.
But most important you find out how to talk without that
time-consuming detour of translation causing you to be only halfway,
when your partner already finished his or her sentence ;-).
You're not
just learning language, you're learning Dutch ways
of life, attitudes, ways of thinking and feeling, from
the inside.
Through relaxed conversation about yourself, people and
what's going on in
Flanders and the Netherlands. You're learning about Dutch and Flemish
culture and society, about our values, topics, differences, about
our concerns and the ways we are.
During this intensive private full
immersion Dutch course, you learn our social grammar too : our customs, habits and
social rules. That's necessary if you really want to understand,
manage efficiently native Dutch speaking people or get involved more
personally with the locals, your Dutch speaking colleagues, clients, friends
or neighbors, your partner and his or her
family.
Direct link to
residential Learn Dutch Retreats or to as efficient
online Dutch language crash courses.
Contact Richard? Feel free to mail richard@learning-dutch.com
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