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.
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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Academic writing in Dutch
In this course, you learn the difference between academic and non-academic texts. You will include information from academic sources in your own texts and practice with objective, accurate, and, most of all, formulating clearly.
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Thesis Writing Workshop
The Thesis Writing Workshop is designed to address the specific challenges encountered while writing your final thesis, whether it is a Bachelor's or a Master's thesis. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on enhancing unity and coherence in writing, integrating resources effectively, refining editing and feedback processing skills, and adhering to academic style and conventions. Various aspects of grammar, vocabulary, and text structure are explored in relation to these key areas.
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Nt2: Advanced (toward C1) - Writing Clear Texts for Work and Study Purposes
In this module, you will practice writing longer texts, such as an academic paper, a policy text, a position paper, or a report. Your own writing product is central. With the help of assignments, you will learn to look at your own texts critically in order to take the next step in your writing skills.
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Chinese for beginners 1
In this course you will practice intensively the tones and sounds of Mandarin and build vocabulary at a rapid pace. You will learn to write Chinese characters and become proficient in Pinyin, the system of representing Chinese in Latin letters.
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Dutch (Nt2) as a Second Language
You can choose from a wide range of courses. The "intensive program" trains you to reach the level of the Dutch Nt2 State Exam, within a year. We offer in-depth courses after the State Exam to perfect your Dutch, or you can learn how to survive from day to day with our Social Dutch courses.
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What else can I do at the Language Center?
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)
Practice your languages with a Language Buddy!
Would you like to have a conversation in another language? Are you following a language course at the Language Center? Would you like to talk to a foreign student about his or her language and country? Then sign up as a Language Buddy.