At the B1 level, you’ll go beyond everyday basics and start expressing yourself with more depth, precision, and natural flow. While lessons are still personalised to your goals and pace, these are the key skills and language areas we’ll build on step by step:

Describing & Connecting Ideas

• Using adjectives and adverbs accurately and naturally

• Understanding the difference between adverbs and adjectives

• Expanding your vocabulary of nouns and their nuances

• Learning indefinite words (for people, objects, and other categories)

• Mastering small but powerful words like er, ergens, nergens, overal, eens, ineens, opeens, and misschien

• Getting comfortable with modal particles such as maar, even, gewoon, nou & toch that make your Dutch sound authentic
   

Core Grammar & Sentence Structure

• Structuring longer and more complex sentences

• Using structure words to create natural flow

• Building relative clauses & using indirect speech

• Understanding complex passive constructions

• Combining er with different verbs and subordinate clauses

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Verbs & Advanced Usage

• Expressing hypothetical or polite situations with zouden

• Using te + infinitive structures and laten + infinitive

• Understanding derived and compound verbs

• Using wees and wezen correctly in different contexts

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Practical Everyday Dutch

• Using the plusquamperfectum (past perfect)

• Forming the perfect tense with multiple verbs

• Telling stories and practising all variants of perfect tenses

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