Learning a Language at the Language Center
Tilburg University is an internationally oriented research and education institute. The Language Center assists students, university staff, and non-university students in improving their language proficiency.
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- Courses Nt2: Advanced toward C1 will start again in Fall. Check our website for registration dates.
- Courses Dutch and English for employees will start in Fall 2023. Register now.
Are you highly educated and do you want to improve your Dutch or learn Dutch as a 2nd language (Nt2)? Then you can choose from a wide range of courses. If you want to learn a foreign language, you are also at the right address at the Language Center.
Learn a foreign Language for free with your language vouchers
Tilburg University offers its students the opportunity to follow free language courses. Are you enrolled at Tilburg University and paying tuition fees here? If so, you will have received twelve digital language vouchers at the start of your studies. Exchange students and Pre-Master's students also receive these twelve language vouchers.
Course overviews
Choose your Course
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Nt2 Beginners (intensive course)
In this course, you will rapidly acquire a good foundation of everyday Dutch. You do this by using texts from the Delft method, which you study online step by step. Grammar is offered implicitly through these texts, so you develop a feeling for the language rather than an explicit knowledge of its rules. What you learn, you apply in countless conversations in Dutch.
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Dutch I for Expats
This is a course for highly educated people who work in an English-speaking environment but want to learn Dutch to manage in everyday life. In this course, you will learn basic Dutch vocabulary and grammar and be trained in the skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing for practical situations. During the lessons the emphasis is on speaking skills in the form of dialogues and role plays.
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Nt2 Intermediate (intensive course)
In this intensive course, you will rapidly build your knowledge of Dutch. You expand your vocabulary to over 4,500 words and learn all kinds of idiomatic expressions. You do this, as in the Nt2 Beginners course, using texts from the Delft method, which you study online step by step. Grammar is implicitly offered through these texts, further developing your sense of language. You will apply what you have learned in numerous conversations in Dutch.
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Dutch I for International Students
In this course you will learn basic Dutch vocabulary and grammar and be trained in the skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing for practical situations. During the lessons the emphasis is on speaking skills in the form of dialogues and role plays.
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Spanish for beginners
In this intensive course, you will learn the basics of Spanish. All skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) are covered, but the course focuses mainly on interaction. Characteristic of the course is the large number of online homework assignments and practical classes where you, together with other students, put into practice what you have learned. You will have to work hard independently but will soon be able to communicate at an elementary level in Spanish.
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Why choose a Language Course at the Language Center?
Educational Vision Teaching Approach
- Our academically trained teachers
- Our focus on a highly educated target group
- Our modern facilities
- Tilburg University Language Center is a member of the Association of Dutch-speaking University Language Centres (NUT), which brings together language centres from the Netherlands and Flanders.
- Officially issued with the quality mark 'Blik op Werk' for civic integration courses (Nt2) (only available in Dutch)
Come and practice your languages in our Language Café!
Would you like to have a conversation in another language? Are you following a language course at the Language Center? Are you interested in other languages and cultures? Are you going to study abroad soon? Or do you just want to talk to a foreign student about his or her language and country? Then this is your chance.