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This coming weekend is King’s Day, and we enjoy celebrating it! Café de las Lenguas is organizing a themed evening about King’s Day and the Dutch language on Thursday. The programme will include traditional Dutch games and a presentation on the history of King’s Day. It promises to be an evening full of fun, with room to expand your cultural knowledge and language skills!

Volg onze nieuwe cursus Notuleer als een speer vanaf 28 maart! Tijdens deze vierweekse workshop op locatie leer je efficiënt notuleren door onze vakkundige docenten. Zij geven tips en feedback om jouw notuleervaardigheden aan te scherpen.

Arabic, Chinese, German, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Do you want to improve your academic writing skills? Attend our academic writing courses, starting in March! We offer a seven-week English course scheduled from 13 March to 17 April,  and a two-week course for native Dutch speakers , to be held with a session on 5 March and one on 12 March.

In March, the University of Groningen Language Centre will offer a Ukrainian beginners course for the first time. The course is completely online and will introduce you to the Ukrainian language and culture. The enthusiastic and experienced teacher Yuliya Kazanova, is a Ukrainian native speaker and a scholar of contemporary Ukrainian literature.

Do you want to feel confident and prepared on your TOEFL test day? Our new three-week exam preparation course will prepare you to take the official TOEFL iBT® Test, the most widely accepted English language test for international students and professionals. 

(For native speakers of Dutch) Leer in deze 3-uur durende workshop hoe je makkelijk leesbare teksten schrijft.

Kick 2024 off to a good start by following an intensive course in Dutch, English, German, Italian, or Spanish in January!

For a while now, it has been virtually impossible to imagine writing without AI. After all, is there anyone who still writes without using an automatic dictionary? And is there anyone who does not translate their sentences using an online translator? Now that AI has been rapidly evolving, it is only a matter of knowing how to make the best use of these new technologies. We asked Jane Mahoney, English teacher and programme coordinator at the Language Centre, about how they deal with AI in the English department when it comes to language teaching.

This year, the Language Centre is celebrating its 35th anniversary! To mark the occasion, we are offering an exclusive anniversary discount for one month. You will now receive a 10% discount on a selection of language courses.

Our intensive Dutch courses start again in January. In an intensive course, you have lessons several times a week, allowing you to work intensively on your Dutch language skills in a short period.

The University of Groningen Language Centre has retained its Blik op Werk quality standard for Dutch language courses as part of civic integration. To continue using the quality standard, the Language Centre had to pass an audit assessing the pass rate for participants in Staatsexamens, the working methods, the quality of staff and customer satisfaction.

Check out the November course schedule and register!

With the combined expertise of both institutes, two fast-paced beginner's level courses Swedish will be on offer. The courses will be taught by teachers from the SVIN following the standard format of the Language Centre.

In February 2024, the University of Groningen Language Centre will launch its training programme in teaching Dutch as a second language (NT2). This teacher training programme will prepare participants for a career in NT2 adult education. The training programme will be taught by experienced and qualified NT2 teachers of the Language Centre.

As of September, the University of Groningen Language Centre is a recognized ETS Certified Test Administrator Services (CTAS) centre and is authorized to administer the official TOEFL iBT® and GRE® Tests. This makes the University of Groningen the only institution in the Northern Netherlands to administer those tests.

Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish courses about to start!

Recent research has shown that learning a foreign language can delay the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and prevent or reduce feelings of depression in later life. To further research these results, the Bilingualism and Aging Lab (BALAB) was founded at the UG. Seyit Gök, department head of the English section of the Language Centre, is a member of BALAB. Observing the positive effects that the language course had on the participants, he decided to bring the research into practice by offering language courses to people aged 60 and above.

We are expanding our course range with beginner courses in Korean and Portuguese. Have you always wanted to learn one of these languages? Then sign up for a course at the University of Groningen Language Centre today!

The third edition of the Gerrit Krol Award has been won by Hanna Végh with her essay Taal als breekijzer (language as a crowbar). As a reward she will receive a monetary prize of €2,000 and her essay will be published on the literary blog Tzum. The jury considers her essay captivating, directional, and very convincing.

In June, July and August, we again offer plenty of summer courses! You can enrol for Dutch, Italian, Spanish and English courses. Check out our full summer offer now and register.

Uit alle inzendingen voor de derde editie van de Gerrit Krolprijs heeft de jury drie essays genomineerd. De genomineerde studenten zijn: Tobias Postma, Emke Sijtsma en Hanna Végh! Op woensdag 14 juni 2023 wordt de winnaar bekendgemaakt tijdens de feestelijke prijsuitreiking.

In the period from June until August, the Language Centre offers intensive Dutch summer courses. Check out our range of summer courses !