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Offered :

Term 2 (May-Jun) and Term 4 (Oct-Dec) each year. Our 2023 Term 4 course begins on Thursday, 19 October. This course is offered as an in-person course at the EarthDiverse Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, live-streamed via Zoom if you live elsewhere, and as video recordings of the live sessions if you cannot attend the regularly scheduled class.

Date & Time:

Our 2023 Term 4 course begins on Thursday, 19 October 2023, 6:30-8:00pm (New Zealand time) and continues for eight consecutive weekly sessions. The last class of the Term is held on Thursday 7 December 2023. If you live outside of New Zealand and wish to Zoom in to our live class sessions, check the nearest local Time Zone equivalent below.

Time Zone equivalents:

for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually the next day.

  • Honolulu, Hawai’i: begins Wed 18 Oct 2023, 7:30-9:00 pm

  • US Pacific: begins Wed 18 Oct 2023, 10:30 pm - 12:00 am

  • US Eastern: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 1:30-3:00 am

  • London, UK: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 6:30-8:00 am

  • Paris, France: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 7:30 - 9:00 am

  • New Delhi, India: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 11:00am -12:30pm

  • Bangkok, Thailand: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 12:30-2:00pm

  • Singapore: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 1:30-3:00 pm

  • Tokyo, Japan: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 2:30-4:00pm

  • Sydney, Australia: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 4:30-6:00pm

Description:

Dutch 203: Intermediate Dutch, Part 3

  • Our Intermediate Dutch 203 course, Part 3, continues on from Introductory Dutch 101-104 and Intermediate Dutch 201-202 with additional conversation, vocabulary and grammar with an emphasis on speaking and listening comprehension. During subsequent Terms (Intermediate Dutch 204, Part 4 and beyond) we continue to emphasise spoken Dutch, grammar and new vocabulary, as well as add additional reading and comprehension exercises. Learning about Dutch culture is an integral a part of our study.

  • This is Part 3 of a four-part Intermediate course over 4 school terms specifically designed for recent Dutch learners. Our language and culture courses focus on teaching and learning only, and we do not expect you to study outside of class nor do we assign homework. Come and spend 12 class hours per Term (eight 1.5 hour weekly classes) learning Dutch and and about Dutch culture, and have some fun too! All of our language classes are designed for busy people.

  • Subsequent Term courses continue with Intermediate Dutch (i.e. our Dutch 204 courses and beyond) and continue to include additional reading and comprehension practice, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation and will continue in the same time slot for the duration of the full course.

Course curriculum:

Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here 1-2 days after each class.

    1. EarthDiverse Course Information

    2. EarthDiverse Zoom instructions

    1. 20231019 T4.1 Dutch 203 video

    2. 20231019 T4.1 Dutch 203 PDF

    1. 20232610 T4.2 Dutch 203 PDF

    2. 20231026 T4.2 Dutch 203 video

    1. 20231102 T4.3 Dutch 203 PDF

    2. 20231102 T4.3 Dutch 203 video

    1. 20231116 T4.4 Dutch 203 PDF

    2. 20231116 T4.4 Dutch 203 video

    1. 20231123 T4.5 Dutch 203 PDF

    2. 20231123 T4.5 Dutch 203 video

Additional course info:

  • Video and PDF content of class presentations or whiteboards notes are uploaded weekly after each live session
  • Begins on Thur 19 Oct 2023
  • NZ time: Thursdays 6.30-8:00pm

Meet our Instructor

Dutch Instructor Jay Van Der Most

Jeroen (Jay) van der Most holds a degree in Sovietology from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked for many years in Human Resources and Recruitment in his home country The Netherlands, UK and here in New Zealand. He currently works as Employment Consultant for a not-for-profit organisation to help people with a wide range of barriers into meaningful work. With a great interest in languages and culture, Jay has filled his spare time with, among many other things, writing a column about dealing with the Dutch for a Dutch expat magazine, tutoring English as a Second Language and volunteering in the tourism industry. Jay currently teaches EarthDiverse’s Dutch language courses.

Location:

All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse Centre located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map below). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
Location

Distance Learning:

This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton, New Zealand. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered:

  • Attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time.

  • Attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time.

  • Watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule.

Distance-Learning options:

Live Zoom sessions or Video-Recordings

  • In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.

  • Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.

  • Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.

Pricing options:

All prices in NZ dollars and includes GST. Unwaged includes students, seniors and retirees.

Notes:

Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.

Materials:

The course fee includes all teaching materials. You will only require a pen or pencil, a notebook for taking your own class notes, and a loose-leaf binder. Any notes that our instructor writes on the class whiteboard will be emailed to you as a digital PDF file so that you can print these out at home and add them to your notebook.

Prerequisites:

Introductory Dutch 101-104 and Intermediate Dutch 201-202, or equivalent knowledge, an a desire to learn Dutch! Please contact us if you have some basic understanding and wish to join this course.