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.
New at Tilburg University Language Center:
Courses start: Spring 2024
- Discovering the Dutch
- Sign Supported Dutch
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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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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English Academic Writing
English Academic Writing aims to equip you with a well-rounded set of skills necessary to produce high-quality academic papers with confidence. Whether you are crafting a persuasive academic essay or presenting empirical research findings in a report, this course will equip you with the tools to excel in your academic pursuits and effectively communicate your ideas in a scholarly manner.
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Discovering the Dutch
In the course Discovering the Dutch, you will explore a number of themes in Dutch society from different interdisciplinary aspects such as history and sociology. We go beyond the “windmills, cheese and tulips” and anecdotal evidence of how the Dutch are different, and focus on really understanding and explaining what ‘makes the Dutch tick’.
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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)
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.