Course details

Learn Dutch at B1 level with a private teacher

What you will learn

  • Speaking: Express ideas and opinions on familiar topics.

Who is this course for?

  • You want to use Dutch naturally in everyday conversations and real-life situations.

This course in short

  • Dutch B1 course based on the guidelines for grammar and vocabulary.

Pricing

Study independently with full access to the learning portal.

Access Per month Total Discount
1 month €14.99 €14.99
3 months €8.00 €24.00 -47%
6 months €5.75 €34.50 -62%
12 months €3.79 €45.48 -75%

Writing feedback on your assignments.

Structured lessons with native audio and video.

Parallel audio to practise listening and pronunciation.

See what to review next based on your mistakes.

You study in the portal at your own pace. Your teacher gives weekly guidance, answers questions, and practises conversation with you.

We recommend 12 hours of live classes per level, with 3 months of self-study.

Choose a package type: 12 hours if you mainly self-study, 24 hours if you want more motivation and less daily self-study, or 48 hours if you prefer learning mainly with your teacher.

Buy only the class hours you need—credits stay valid for one year. Each conversation class includes a self-study license for the learning portal.

Includes all from self-study

  • Full self-study access to the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio, video and personalized report
  • Weekly conversation practice with a professional teacher
  • Study online as much as you want between classes

Blended learning packages

One level takes about 3 months of self-study. Compare package types for live class hours and estimated daily self-study.

Package type Live classes Estimated self-study Price
Regular

One conversation class per week. A good balance if you like steady self-study with weekly speaking practice.

12 x 60 minutes 30 minutes/day ± €372
Conversation

Two conversation classes per week. Choose this when you want more live guidance and less daily self-study.

24 x 60 minutes 15 minutes/day ± €744
Intensive

Four conversation classes per week. For learners who prefer to study mainly with a teacher.

48 x 60 minutes Optional ± €1,488

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Estimated course price based on 1 class per week over 12 weeks. You can buy more or fewer hours anytime.

Michel B.

Michel B.

Pedagogische Academie

  • 4.98/5

± €420

1 class/week · 12 weeks

Start this course with Michel B.
Monique M.

Monique M.

PDG (Bevoegdheid tot het geven van lessen aan volwassenen en jong volwassenen MBO)

  • 4.95/5

± €300

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Ana M.

Ana M.

Master Special Educational Needs

  • 4.6/5

± €300

1 class/week · 12 weeks

Start this course with Ana M.
Liesbet L.

Liesbet L.

Algemeen Middelbaar Onderwijs

  • 5/5

± €420

1 class/week · 12 weeks

Start this course with Liesbet L.
Credits valid for 1 year
Flexible scheduling
24-hour cancellation policy

Learning method

Video and audio lessons shown on desktop
1

Practice all skills

Learn with audio, video and AI corrections to practice speaking, reading, listening and writing.

Speaking Reading Listening Writing
2

Audio training

Listen at normal or slow speed, with or without translations.

Ebook and PDF worksheets
3

Offline ebook

Download lessons as ebook and PDF for offline study.

Ebook & PDF

Course book

  • Ebook included for free
  • Printed book available in bookshops
  • Available in multiple languages, with course license
  • Ideal to support multilingual classrooms

Full access to the coLanguage App is included with all our courses. Try it for free!

Curriculum

You reach 1 level in 3 months. Vocabulary and grammar are aligned with official exams (CEFR).

Learning objectives

  • Take on a new client over the phone.
  • Make casual phone calls to friends and family.
  • Useful phrases for phone calls.
  • Build your phone-related vocabulary.

Video/audio

  • Why call when you can send a message?

Grammar

  • Sentence structure: main clause and interrogative clause

Learning objectives

  • Learn vocabulary for emails and letters
  • Write clear, professional messages for both formal and informal situations

Video/audio

  • Watch out! This is how you prevent phishing

Grammar

  • Compound sentence: Hoofdzin + Bijzin

Learning objectives

  • Dealing with workplace conflicts professionally
  • Express your wellbeing and any discomfort in a professional setting

Video/audio

  • Avoid these 7 frustrations at work

Grammar

  • Basic word order: Onderwerp en werkwoord

Learning objectives

  • Making a complaint or claiming under a product warranty
  • Ask for delivery or tracking details for a parcel
  • Order online, and return or exchange a damaged or unwanted item

Video/audio

  • The busiest period for PostNL

Grammar

  • Linking words: Daardoor, toch en ondanks

Learning objectives

  • Welcoming a new client or potential client
  • Prepare a quote and a project proposal
  • Organise a sales meeting

Video/audio

  • How does a good sales conversation work?

Grammar

  • The use of "wel"

Learning objectives

  • Talk about streaming music and podcasts
  • Talk about which TV series or music you like and don’t like.

Video/audio

  • Behind the scenes at Spotify

Grammar

  • Separable verbs

Learning objectives

  • Basic web and internet use
  • Compare and sign up for internet, Wi‑Fi and data plans
  • Talk about your mobile phone contract and digital services

Video/audio

  • Compare mobile subscriptions

Grammar

  • Zitten / Staan / Lopen + te + infinitief

Learning objectives

  • Debating news articles
  • Discuss different news categories

Video/audio

  • What is fake news and how can you recognise it?

Grammar

  • Verbs with a fixed preposition

Learning objectives

  • Understand common celebrations, public holidays and social traditions
  • Organise and talk about parties
  • Organising and planning parties and family gatherings

Video/audio

  • The most important holiday in the Netherlands: King's Day!

Grammar

  • Politeness and requests with zou (willen, kunnen, mogen)

Learning objectives

  • Talk about romantic plans, dating and relationships
  • Talk about long-lasting friendships

Video/audio

  • Prefer swiping online or meeting someone in real life?

Grammar

  • Politeness and wishes: Zou + willen + graag/weleens

Learning objectives

  • Talk about a film you’ve seen
  • Describing the plot of a film or book
  • planning a film

Video/audio

  • History of the film

Grammar

  • Present perfect with zijn

Learning objectives

  • Talk about what you saw at the theatre
  • Get to know important actors and poets in your host country
  • Plan an evening out at a cultural event

Video/audio

  • What do you do when you go to the theatre?

Grammar

  • Modal verbs - kunnen, moeten, mogen, willen, zullen

Learning objectives

  • Talk about what you saw at the museum
  • Get to know the key painters and architects of your host country
  • Organising a museum visit and discussing a local artwork

Video/audio

  • The largest round painting in the Netherlands!

Grammar

  • Expressing probabilities and certainties - waarschijnlijk, misschien, zeker, vast

Learning objectives

  • Talk about different types of holidays and travel experiences
  • Organise a trip with family or friends
  • Transport options and travel plans

Grammar

  • Plural forms of nouns

Learning objectives

  • Describe what you do in your free time.
  • Common hobbies and weekend activities
  • Join a new hobby club

Video/audio

  • A unique team sport underwater!

Grammar

  • Use of adjectives

Learning objectives

  • Follow and give detailed cooking instructions and recipes
  • Vocabulary for ingredients, kitchen utensils and cooking techniques

Grammar

  • Comparisons and qualification with meer/minder/even

Learning objectives

  • Learn to describe complex flavours
  • Understand an advanced restaurant menu

Video/audio

  • The green Michelin star

Grammar

  • Indefinite numerals: verscheidene, meerdere, enige

Learning objectives

  • Learn about body parts and organs
  • How to look after your body

Video/audio

  • Why do we get nauseous?

Grammar

  • Pronouns

Learning objectives

  • Use your health insurance
  • Take out private medical insurance
  • Learn how the healthcare system works in your host country

Video/audio

  • Money and health

Grammar

  • Reflexive pronouns: singular and self-form

Learning objectives

  • Discuss symptoms with your pharmacist
  • Read your doctor’s prescription

Video/audio

  • Does food work just as well as medicine?

Grammar

  • The adverb: er

Learning objectives

  • Talk about nutrients and ingredients in food
  • Talk about your everyday diet

Video/audio

  • The truth about Light and Zero

Grammar

  • Relative pronoun (waar + preposition, wie)

Learning objectives

  • Talk about aches, pains and first aid
  • Talk about common first aid injuries and injuries

Video/audio

  • How do you perform resuscitation?

Grammar

  • Indefinite pronoun: Alle - Al - Allen - Allemaal

Learning objectives

  • Learn pregnancy vocabulary
  • Going to a doctor’s appointment during pregnancy

Video/audio

  • High workload in maternity care

Grammar

  • Demonstrative pronouns: hetzelfde / dezelfde

Learning objectives

  • Chat to your hairdresser or make-up artist during a beauty appointment
  • Describe the look, hairstyle or make-up you want
  • Book, confirm or change a salon or beauty studio appointment

Video/audio

  • This hairdressing salon has existed for 175 years!

Grammar

  • Contrasting signal words: echter, daarentegen, desondanks, wel, toch, juist, eens

Learning objectives

  • Know your family’s school options
  • Understand the different types of school in your host country
  • Most common administrative procedures at school

Video/audio

  • The history of school and compulsory education

Grammar

  • Past perfect: gestudeerd hebben / toegelaten zijn tot

Learning objectives

  • Talk about an exam you’ve taken or will be taking
  • Talk about your grades and results
  • Talk about different types of exam

Video/audio

  • With these tips you'll pass your exams!

Grammar

  • Perfect Conditional Tense: zouden zijn gegaan / zouden hebben gefocust op

Learning objectives

  • Learn how to write a CV
  • Go to the Jobcentre
  • Write a reference letter for your former boss, or ask them for one

Video/audio

  • Some tips for a strong CV

Grammar

  • Use of the past perfect with the simple past

Learning objectives

  • Discuss job roles in depth
  • Post a vacancy

Video/audio

  • What do you wear to a job interview?

Grammar

  • The past perfect in conditional sentences (als + had)

Learning objectives

  • Employment contracts
  • Types of contracts
  • Dealing with unemployment and redundancy

Video/audio

  • Employment contract and workplace rules: what is the difference?

Grammar

  • Difference: zou + infinitive vs zou + past participle

Learning objectives

  • Ask for time off verbally and in writing
  • Explain why you’re requesting leave (personal, medical, family, etc.).
  • Phrases about holidays, working hours and leave requests.

Video/audio

  • Everything you need to know about work and holiday days

Grammar

  • Perfect future-in-the-past: zou(den) have requested leave / zou(den) have been travelling

Learning objectives

  • Being able to express yourself when searching for a new place to live
  • Most common monthly household bills
  • Talk about moving into your new home

Video/audio

  • What monthly costs are there?

Grammar

  • Present future perfect: zal getekend hebben / zal verhuisd zijn naar

Learning objectives

  • Describe your home and its décor in detail
  • Talk about your preferences for different interior design styles
  • Explain what changes you’ve made to your home

Video/audio

  • A look inside a renovated townhouse

Grammar

  • Had + kunnen / moeten / willen

Learning objectives

  • Advanced house-cleaning routines
  • Electrical appliances for cleaning
  • Hiring a cleaning company

Grammar

  • Perfect conditional: zou(den) gebruikt hebben / zou(den) gegaan zijn

Learning objectives

  • Call for help in an emergency
  • Home security and alarm systems

Video/audio

  • Burglary at jeweller's

Grammar

  • Imperative (extension)

Learning objectives

  • Dealing with family issues
  • How social services work
  • Childcare and care for older people

Video/audio

  • A look behind the scenes at the nursery

Grammar

  • Modal verbs: moeten/ kunnen/ mogen + passive

Learning objectives

  • Manage your personal investments
  • Taxes in your host country
  • How to use online banking and manage your payments

Video/audio

  • Scammed via Tikkie?

Grammar

  • Subordinating conjunctions: hoewel, ondanks dat, terwijl, wanneer, ...

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your family situation
  • Discuss different types of relationships
  • Arrange your civil status (registering at the town hall or signing forms at the notary)

Video/audio

  • New to the Netherlands? Register in the BRP!

Grammar

  • Passive tenses: presens, imperfectum, perfectum, plusquamperfectum

Learning objectives

  • Advanced personality characteristics
  • How personality influences teamwork

Video/audio

  • The team roles of Belbin

Grammar

  • Comparisons: even ... als, hoe ... hoe

Learning objectives

  • Advanced job titles
  • Organisational chart and roles
  • Leadership and hierarchy

Video/audio

  • Assistant store manager at Action

Grammar

  • Use of men

Learning objectives

  • Daily commute to work
  • Discuss company policy and alternatives to driving
  • Discuss leasing for transport

Video/audio

  • The Dutch are cycling to work more and more.

Grammar

  • Nominalization: beslissen, beslissing

Learning objectives

  • Communicating across departments about laboratory work and experiments
  • Follow basic laboratory methods and procedures

Video/audio

  • Working as a laboratory technician in a university hospital

Grammar

  • Both, beiden & allebei

Learning objectives

  • Explore the government and legal system in your host country
  • Handling legal hurdles and securing grants
  • Contact the local authorities.

Video/audio

  • Realising your building plans!

Grammar

  • Double infinitive

Learning objectives

  • Negotiating prices
  • Exchange rates / prices
  • Contract vocabulary

Video/audio

  • How to get the maximum result from your negotiation!

Grammar

  • Connected and reduced speech: 'r / ie / 'm / 't

Learning objectives

  • Discuss environmental legislation
  • Talk about your daily environment and health

Video/audio

  • What is sustainability, actually?

Grammar

  • Indirect speech: past tense

Learning objectives

  • Vocabulary for conferences and public speaking
  • Introduce yourself and meet others at networking events
  • Attending a conference

Video/audio

  • At the business networking event!

Grammar

  • Structuring sentences: enerzijds ... anderzijds, niet alleen ... maar ook

Conversation classes

Start with self-study and switch to a teacher when you are ready.

Start with self-study

  • Study independently in the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio and video
  • Switch to a teacher later when you are ready

Conversation classes with a teacher

Teachers set their own prices

  • Recommended course plan: 12 weeks
  • 12 conversation classes
  • Includes full self-study in the portal
Contact a teacher

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Personalized tasks and hand-ins

Your teacher sets personalized tasks—and the app adapts exercises to your level and the areas you find hardest.

Learning portal

Study online or offline with PDF downloads, interactive exercises, audio, video, and AI-powered writing feedback.

Structured learning paths

Follow clear paths from A1 to C1, plus professional courses tailored to your goals.

Conversation classes

Every teacher is personally screened and trained to teach with our learning portal—so your classes match your course and progress.

Offline worksheets (PDF, translated)

Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

Quality guarantee

We partner with universities and align every course with official learning programs—for reliable, recognized learning.

Learn with real content (news, podcasts…)

Practice with real news articles and podcasts—immersive content that prepares you for everyday language.

Full-skill training: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

Course materials trusted by official libraries and bookshops

Our books are sold in bookshops across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and beyond—and approved by public libraries.

Academic collaboration with universities

Course plans are co-developed from our Valencian office with multiple European universities.

Student reviews of our Dutch lessons

  • 4.6/5
4.6 out of 5 based on 12 ratings

Colleagues recommended coLanguage for professional Dutch. Blended mode: book at home, portal for writing practice.

Rachel E.
Helsinki, Finland
Self-study
  • 4.9/5

Our HR team liked the activity reports. I study Dutch self-paced and add conversation classes when travel allows.

Claire D.
Lyon, France
Blended learning
  • 4.7/5

Clear structure from A1 upward. AI corrections in the portal save time; I still work through the printed units.

David R.
Berlin, Germany
Blended learning
  • 4.4/5

Our partners

We thank our partners for the support we receive for developing our online school.

We proudly work with Lanzadera, a Spanish accelerator program in Valencia.

The university of Siegen helps us to develop and design our education systems and programs.

Our IT systems are powered and supported by the Google Cloud team

We collaborate with universities all across the European Union to develop our course materials, thanks to the Erasmus+ Program.