Basiscursus 1 - App

In 16 lessons, from level 0 to A1.

For students who have completed at least primary school.

Basic course 1 is the first step of the Delft method that has been specifically designed for students who want to learn Dutch and who have completed at least primary school. With this handy app on their smartphone or tablet, students have constant access to the complete course that teaches them how to speak, listen, write and read in Dutch.

What is the Basic course  1 - App?

• Step-based learning: in sixteen lessons from level 0 to A1
• Clear structure for learning, exercising and testing with feedback
• Clickable texts with direct word translations
• Explanatory grammar blocks
• Reading, listening, speaking and writing exercises

The length of the course depends entirely on you. If you do a lesson a day, you’ll be speaking Dutch in three weeks! If you’d prefer to take your time, you can learn Dutch in two months by doing two lessons a week. One lesson takes roughly an hour and a half.

The course is made up of 16 lessons, each of which contains the following steps:

• Listening to, reading, reciting and comprehending the text
• Listening exercises to train your ear
• A test to see how well you know the text
• Exercises to see whether you understand what you have learned

The Basis course 1 - App is designed for beginners. The app takes students from level 0 to A1.

The follow-up to Basic course 1 - App is Basic course 2.

The Basic course 1 - App is designed for students who:

• have completed primary school
• have not taken a higher level of education than secondary school
• are taking a Dutch course for the first time

For beginners with a higher educational background than secondary school, we offer the course Nederlands voor buitenlanders (Dutch for foreigners).

Bondi Sciarone is one of the founders of the Delft method. He is an authority in the area of NT2 education for non-native speakers. 

Piet Meijer (General Linguistics, University of Leiden) is a teacher and coordinator at the Centre for Languages and Academic Skills (ITAV) at the Delft University of Technology. His main tasks are to provide NT2 education and to develop NT2 teaching tools. He has studied the effectiveness of completion exercises and listening training and is co-author of various editions of the De Delftse Methode series and teaching tools for specific subjects. He also trains (future) teachers and advises institutes regarding the teaching tools and didactics behind De Delftse Methode.