UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Dutch Level 1
Prerequisite for entry
For complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the language.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to function at a basic everyday survival level
(basic vocabulary, grammar and phonetics). Students should be able to communicate in
and understand Dutch on a number of practical everyday matters.
Functions
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Greetings, introducing yourself and others
Talking about yourself
Talking about the weather
Buying everyday items
Asking for and telling the time
Asking and indicating ‘when’
Asking and identifying places in relation to other items
Asking and answering yes and no questions
Asking and telling what people are wearing
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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First contacts around nationality
Numbers, days of the week
The weather
Travelling
The time
“At home”
Colours and clothes
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken Dutch
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Grammar
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Noun and gender: het words and de words
Prepositions and adjectives
Definite and indefinite articles
Present tense of verbs
Personal pronouns
Numerals
Subject, object and word order in Dutch
Learning Resources
Books:
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Course book: Taal Vitaal – Nederlands voor beginners, Intertaal
Grammar: Teach Yourself Dutch Grammar (Hodder Education)
Lecturers handouts
In addition there are a range of language learning materials for self-study in the Self-Access
Centre.
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