• At Stand-By, beginners can learn Dutch during a Total Immersion Week. During this course students learn in groups of 3 to 5, Monday to Friday from 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

• Sometimes, students will get new identities and take part in a specially designed play.
  

• The teacher reads the play in Dutch over special music while students read along and mark words that are new or strange to them.
• Activities, games and songs will make it easier to learn useful new words and grammar.
• Students are never forced to answer a question they can’t answer: answers are found all around them in a sensory rich environment.
• At the end of the day, students will hear the play again. This time, however, the words will be read over a background of slow baroque music. Students just relax. They’ll know every part of the text: they have experienced it all
  during the day, word by word!
• On Wednesday, the group will go out for lunch and do their grocery shopping and on Thursday, they will prepare their own lunch.
• Friday morning, a professional instructor will teach a subject (yoga, painting etc.) in Dutch. More advanced students and native Dutch speakers will join the group, so students will get the chance to practise their Dutch in real-life situations.
• Much material will be provided: a CD, a CD-Rom, a grammar reference, over 100 flash cards and much more.

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