Dear language lover, This Monday 6 December, from 19:30 to 21:00, there will be another Language Café. Unfortunately not in the foyer of theater De Fransche School, but … online, via Zoom. Even though we prefer to get together physically and that is worth a lot to us, keeping in touch with you as a […]
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Coolest language café around!
Our next café’s theme is … (Inter)national bites, in the theater’s foyer, on November 1st! Like last year we invite you to bring sweet and savory snacks to our next Talencafé on November 1st. To get into the right mood we asked two visitors from the first hour for this newsletter what their favourite food […]
More Language Walks in Culemborg!
Our spring and summer walks were well visited and that is why we decided to organise them on a more regular basis. The first one is the Autumn Walk on Sunday morning the 24th of October. In winter, we organise a language walk on the 19th of December. Save the dates or sign in (see […]
Restart of our local Language Cafe!
We’ve got wonderful news: we will restart with our language cafe on the 28th of June! Last year, we started with our Cafe in Café Vollin, but in October, this great art cafe had to close its doors due to corona. Want to know what happened after that moment? Read on to find out where […]
Inspiration evenings about Dutch and English in Culemborg
As a language teacher, I have always had the wish to work locally as much as possible. From the moment I started my own language school in 2010, something different happened though. I got more and more customers who wanted to have lessons via Skype and often lived outside of my own city or abroad. […]
Get to know Holly, our new tutor for British English online lessons!
Hi! I’m Holly and I’m a native English speaker from the U.K. currently living in Visé, Belgium. Business English Since moving to Belgium 2 years ago I have taught English as a foreign language in an Immersion Business School working with adults from a variety of professional backgrounds and nationalities . Here, I have taught […]
Our new tutor Luc introduces himself
Three months ago we welcomed a new tutor to our Taaltutor pool, Luc Boeke. Luc lives in Switzerland, but is originally Dutch. He mainly works as a Dutch tutor, but can also teach French and English. Who is Luc Boeke? “Energetic, agile communicator and networker, always on the move…” These are five key ingredients that […]
Gap words in Dutch: stopwoordjes!
We have all heard the following words used by people in English: you know, actually, so, okay, I guess, well, truly, really, totally, awesome, like, about, absolutely. And many more. They don’t always add to the meaning or intention of what you want to say, but often unconsciously, creep into our way of speaking. They are also referred to as gap […]
Read The Chaos and test your pronunciation
Here is a poem that loves to be read out loud by you! It is called ‘The Chaos’, written by a Dutch Anglicist and language critic Charivarius, pseudonym for Gerard Nolst Trenité. Don’t get your tongue twisted! Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, […]
Top 5 Free Tools For Learning English
Top 5 Dictionaries Merriam-Webster: reliable allround and famous dictionary, offers American English translations, thesaurus, tutorials, with naturally pronounced audio; Oxford Dictionaries: great dictionary, British English, with hundreds of example sentences to check your words in context; The Free Dictionary: complete dictionary that refers to other well-known dictionaries, make your own homepage or word list, play Hangman, test your spelling; Your Dictionary: English […]
