Practice Dutch
If you are looking for opportunities for practising your Dutch, we can offer you language courses for children, chat cafés, easy-to-follow theatre performances, booklets with words and pictures and much more.
Practice in your spare time
Looking for tips to learn Dutch?
Looking for activities?
Would you like to practice your Dutch in a fun way during your free time? Do you enjoy cooking or crafting? Would you rather do sports or just chat? Or do you like learning something new?
Dutch language lessons
The adult education center Crescendo-CVO (Campus GLTT), in Sint-Genesius-Rode and Halle, organizes Dutch lessons.
Registration:
The Agency for Integration and Civic Integration organizes information days about Dutch courses in our region. You can get information there and register for a Dutch course. Make an appointment by calling 0800 123 00.
Where?
CVO Crescendo, Schoolstraat 2, 1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Café Combinne
If you fancy having a pleasant chat in Dutch, Café Combinne is the place to practice the language and meet people from your neighbourhood. We talk about everyday issues. Coffee, tea and water are available free of charge.
When? Every Wednesday, from 19:30 to 22:00.
Where? LDC De Boomgaard, Vergeet-Mij-Nietjeslaan 8 in Sint-Genesius-Rode.
Practical info: No registration needed. Come whenever you like. You can already speak a little Dutch.
Can’t make Wednesday evening? There are other Café Combinne locations as well: www.cafecombinne.be.
Language icons
Our community centre offers many activities in the Dutch language. These are ideal for people learning Dutch. Use the explanations linked to the language icons to choose an activity.
What do the language icons mean?
Language icon 1: You don’t understand or speak much Dutch yet.
Language icon 2: You already understand a bit of Dutch, but you don’t speak it very well yet.
Language icon 3: You understand quite a lot of Dutch and can also say a few things.
Language icon 4: You understand a lot of Dutch and speak it well.
Language immersion
Is Dutch not your children’s mother tongue?
Would you like them to learn and practice Dutch?
Register your children for a playful camp with activities in Dutch.
These are not language lessons.
Materials to practice Dutch
Looking for materials to practice Dutch? Come to the community center or visit the Language Point in the library.
Voor organisatoren en begeleiders
Ben je vrijwilliger in een vereniging, begeleid je een oefenkans Nederlands of werk je in het onderwijs? Vzw ‘de Rand’ nodigt iedereen die in de Vlaamse Rand woont, werkt, er naar school gaat en/of vrije tijd besteedt op een positieve manier uit om Nederlands te leren, te oefenen en te gebruiken. Ook Nederlandstaligen kunnen hieraan meewerken. Met tips, methodieken, materialen, workshops, coaching en trajecten op maat ondersteunt vzw ‘de Rand’ scholen, verenigingen, lokale besturen en andere partners.