Jan. 2010: The 4th edition of the beginners course "Nederlands voor Buitenlanders" is available. Read more ....

March 2008: The beginnerscourse (the "green book") is now also available as a webbased course. Try the demolessons. For more information contact m.derksen@uitgeverijboom.nl

May 2006: Second edition of the method Tweede Ronde. Besides some small corrections, there is an important difference: text 23 about costs of illness and insurances has been revised to the new situation.

Sept. 2005: On 21st September a Liber Amicorum was offered to professor Bondi Sciarone. This Liber Amicorum contains, amongst other things, scientific contributions by experts from different universities and institutes, specializing in Dutch as a second language (NT-2).

Those who are interested can order a copy by sending an e-mail to the publishers: nt2@uitgeverijboom.nl

Title description:
Gloria Bondi, Amsterdam, Boom, 2005. ISBN 90 8506 161 x.

Aug.11, 2005: text help for the 2005-edition of our textbook De Tweede Ronde is now available in Online Assitance, for 20 texts. In the coming weeks all help files will become available.

May 2005: A completely revised edition of the method Tweede Ronde is available now. This intermediate course book (from CEF level A2 to B1) offers 45 texts in which a broad range of aspects of the Netherlands (history, economy, culture, way of life) are discussed. Cdrom and audiocd's are included. The Oefenboek (= exercise book) also has been published now. This book contains many excercises. Students of IT&C need to purchase this new edition from April 2005.

(May 30., 2005)

April 1, 2005: The site www.dutchforforeigners.tudelft.nl has been been closed.

Febr. '05: The OnlineAssistance is now accessible on this site through the menu Courses>OnlineAssistance. There you will find lots of additional materials which supports users of the series The Delft Method.

Summer 2004: New Introductory course Dutch for foreigners.

July 2004 the course Basiscursus. Nederlands voor buitenlanders has been published. This is a course for learners with little or lower secondary education, and for those who prefer to make a less intensive start. It is small in size and visually supported by lots of functional illustrations.

In 16 lessons the 900 Dutch most frequently used words will be presented in short, simple texts that are relevant for immigrants who want to integrate into the Dutch society. It is an extremely practical course, aimed at acquiring an elementary fluency in Dutch. Translations of all the words are added in English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Czech and Russian. The couse also includes a cd-rom, with -amongst other things- listening and pronunciation practice.