Indeed, it's possible to learn Dutch in 1 week !

Intensive full immersion Dutch courses  

learn Dutch fast, especially designed and made to measure Dutch courses for the higher educated

a week full immersion Dutch courses, one to one Dutch lessons and an experienced dedicated private Dutch tutor,

5 or 7 days residential Dutch courses in a pleasant quiet countryside business  hotel (Hotel Greenpark in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw) near Brussels. 

6, 7 or 8 intensive one to one Dutch lessons a day, (6 private Dutch lessons a day is standard) 

2 to 3 hours of revision on your own,

5 Days full immersion to learn Dutch the most efficient way.

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In Hotel Greenpark a pleasant quiet business hotel at the countryside.

Private one to one made to measure Dutch courses, to learn that Dutch you really need.

Starting the week Richard tests your level of proficiency in Dutch,

together you discuss results and fix realistic goals for the week.

From Monday to Friday

+ possibly an additional weekend.

Intensive personal coaching:

6 private Dutch lessons a day + 2 to 3 hours revision on your own

or 7 or 8 lessons a day (including 1 or 2 hours of coached revision)

during breaks, lunch and dinner: 3 hours of relaxed conversation in Dutch

excluding your watching Dutch TV or DVD's,

you easily get 50 to 60 hours of immersion in Dutch.

You learn Dutch, useful Dutch

Emphasis on understanding an fluently speaking Dutch:

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Theme-centred learning Dutch, ongoing remedying.

Topics are topics you chose, you really want to talk about:

your work, family, hobbies, interests, ... .

The vocabulary you're interested in and really need.

TV-programs, news, articles

 or documents related to your job and  interests.

Material you want or need to understand as a basis for conversation.

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Learn useful Dutch, main goal: communication, conversation,

easy and pleasant contact with Dutch and Belgian people:

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This needs more than mere Dutch language courses.

At dinners :

partners from local social and cultural life.

All you always wanted to ask and know about Dutch and Belgian people,

the way they are, their differences and similarities.

You learn Dutch as well as understanding Dutch mentality, ways of life and attitudes,

musts and don'ts .

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Your private Dutch teacher or local dinner partners are present during breaks, lunches and dinners: 3 more hours of relaxed training in Dutch conversation a day, 15 or 21 hours a week.

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Full immersion in Dutch:

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From the first day your teacher only speaks Dutch.

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You only learn the Dutch you need :

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Easy understanding of spoken and written Dutch.

Feeling at ease and expressing yourself easily in Dutch.

Understanding the Dutch and Belgian way of life for pleasant contacts with the natives.

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A full immersion Dutch course : it's the only efficient way to learn Dutch fast and good.

A crash course for executive managers, diplomats, lawyers, and other higher educated

Who want to understand and speak Dutch as fast as they can,

For whom an inside understanding of Dutch and Belgian attitudes

is most important for a successful private, social and professional live.

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How is this full immersion Dutch week for the higher educated designed?

Former students mostly preferred a 5-days week, 6 lessons a day. To learn Dutch, more is not always better. 

5 days a week,  6 lessons a day + 3 hours of extra conversation + 2 to 3 hours of revision on your own,

and, last but not least, keeping yourself immersed by avoiding as much as possible to read or speak any other language,

is intensive and sufficient to learn Dutch on your pace and rhythm the fastest possible way.

You may ask 7 or 8 lessons for coached revision or cultural outings.

If you want more, prefer to add the weekend.

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Full immersion Dutch course for the higher educated, Monday:

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9 a.m. arrival, moving in, informal acquaintance with coffee or thee.

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Testing your level of proficiency in Dutch according the European Proficiency Scale (What's that? click here)

More important is what native speakers would prefer to hear, in order of importance that is : correct pronunciation, correct sentence structure, vocabulary, respect of basic Dutch manners.

This allows them to understand you and creates goodwill. Grammar and spelling are less important than understanding spoken Dutch and being able to communicate what you need.

You discuss test results with your teacher and together fix goals and priorities for your week.

On average after 5 or 7 days of full immersion, 30 or 42 one to one Dutch lessons, Richards students are at least one level farther on the European Proficiency Scale.

Starting from scratch (A0 level), you may be near to an elementary A2 level in just one week.

Learning the necessary elementary basis of a language is easier. And a good basis (correct pronunciations and sentence structures) is necessary for smooth further progress.

10:30-11 a.m. Break with informal conversation, in Dutch of course.

From the first day your teacher only speaks Dutch with you.

This full immersion in Dutch may be somewhat strange at first glance but it's the only really efficient way to learn Dutch at your pace in the shortest possible time.

Such a 'sudden' immersion in  Dutch demands some adaptation from your brain but you can trust its sensor-motor coordination:

Your brain will switch to a state of 'creative dissatisfaction'.

It will start to function autonomously, looking for contextual and nonverbal clues to understand what is said.

That's why this method is the best possible way to learn Dutch for the higher educated: you know you can trust your brains innate ability to grasp structures.

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11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.: private one to one Dutch lessons with your dedicated tutor.

Theme-centered, client-centered teaching, ongoing remedying and helpful coaching,

Theme-centered learning: conversation topics are your topics, those things you are interested in and want or need to communicate about in Dutch .

Meanwhile you get the help you need to progress: your dedicated Dutch teacher hands you the every-day or professional vocabulary you need,

teaches you good pronunciation, shows you the right way to express yourself in Dutch, emphasizes on clear 'one idea one sentence' Dutch and common language

as the fastest ways to express yourself in easy understandable good Dutch.

We may use articles, radio or TV news, recordings, texts about subjects your interested in, hobbies, work, family-life, home, Dutch ways of live, ...

If you're starting from scratch we use 'Wablieft' a weekly newspaper for foreigners learning Dutch.  By 'Wablieft' you get information on last weeks news and actual topics among the natives. Most useful : although printed, Wablieft uses every-day spoken Dutch.

Intensive private Dutch courses for the higher educated who need to learn Dutch as fast as possible:

During breaks and lunch your teacher stays with you.

During breaks and lunchtime there's plenty of opportunities to talk in Dutch about anything that comes up: weather, daily live, what comes up during chat with your teacher or the hotel owner.

An extra chance to unconsciously integrate your growing knowledge of Dutch.

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After noon: inventory of your pronunciation and intonation progresses and needs

sentence structure and when needed some spelling and grammar.

Together you choose key-sentences. Typical sentences offering you an easy opportunity to train specific aspects of vocabulary, pronunciation, essential grammar or sentence structure.

Key-sentences carry more than it seems at first glance.

While reviewing them in the background your brain remembers and integrates everything  you learned that day.

After 6 or more private Dutch lessons and ongoing conversation your brain needs a rest to integrate!

Maybe you don't think so but disconnecting, a good balance between activity and rest, contact and withdrawal are important to learn Dutch the fastest possible way.

These intensive private one to one made to measure Dutch courses are rich and intensive.

Letting your thoughts flow freewheeling is the way your brain integrates new experiences. 

To calm down, decanting, without any conscious effort leads to internal conversation, thinking and dreaming in Dutch.

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Intensive full immersion Dutch courses: Dinner with partners from local socio-cultural life:

Through these contacts you start to understand how the Dutch perspective as it is embedded in the language, words and sentence structures you are learning. You get acquainted with how Dutch speaking people perceive and experience live through the very language you are learning. Through learning Dutch in full immersion, you get in touch with the Dutch 'soul'. Our way of being.

In one single week one to one full immersion Dutch course with Richard van Egdom an experienced private Dutch teacher you, your higher educated boss, colleague,

friend or partner learn as much as during a full year of weekly classes or group teaching.

Here you progress one level of proficiency in Dutch in one single week of intensive and efficient one to one private Dutch courses.

are necessary ingredients of efficient motivating private Dutch courses.

Then you want to meet share your experiences, 

opinions and idea's,

put your questions,

give your answers

As you want to communicate in Dutch about your interests, hobbies, concerns, you want to learn Dutch as fast as you can.

Vocabulary, correct pronunciation and sentence structure get more easy to learn.

They are no goal anymore but tools allowing you to understand, speak, dialogue, know each other, share, to exchange.

You get intensive theme centered coaching, your pace is appreciated, conversation topics are your topics.

During such an intensive private Dutch course you learn the Dutch you're interested in, as a result you start thinking and even dreaming in Dutch,

without that time-consuming detour of translation causing you to be only halfway when your partner already finished his sentence.

In addition, during breaks, lunch and diner there's extra opportunity to relaxed conversation in Dutch

with your dedicated Dutch teacher or diner partners from local social and cultural life.

You not only learn Dutch, you learn Dutch ways of live, attitudes, ways of thinking and feeling, from inside,

through relaxed conversation about people and society in Flanders and the Netherlands,

about our habits, values, topics, our concerns and the way we are.

RDuring such an intensive private full immersion Dutch course, you, your boss, colleague, friend or partner not only learn Dutch.

You learn Dutch social grammar too: our customs, habits and social rules.

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On www.apprendre-le-neerlandais.com your French-speaking boss, colleague, friends and partners can read all about our full immersion Dutch courses in French.

Your German friends, partners, bosses or colleagues can read all they want to know about our intensive private Dutch courses in German on www.sprachkursniederlaendisch.de

All information in Dutch on these most efficient full immersion private Dutch classes with Richard van Egdom are on www.leernederlands.com

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These most efficient Dutch courses, according to The Wall Street Journal one of the best language courses are organized by Vriendenkring Amiti� Europ�enne a non profit organization in franchise of DialoguE sprl. We use the money earned with these most efficient full immersion Dutch courses to finance our goals: inter-European contact and understanding.

Our small is beautiful non profit organization also has websites on family holidays, trail description, hiking, mountain retreat and  sabbatical leave in the Pyrenees Mountains www.pyrenees-pireneos.org (mostly in English). Same information but with a full 2-weeks trail detailed description of a Pyrenean High Level (HRP) Trail, family holidays and mountain retreat in French is on www.pyrenees.be

Information in Dutch on European encounter family holidays in the Pyrenees can be found on www.pyrenees-pyreneeen.be