Volume three · English explanations

Nederlands B1 — the level
the Netherlands
actually asks for.

B1 is the inburgering standard, the door to Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I, and the point at which Dutch colleagues stop switching to English out of kindness. Forty-nine days on word order you steer rather than memorise, opinions you can defend, the vaste voorzetsels that otherwise keep you wrong forever — and your first Dutch conversations about your own work.

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The shift

What actually changes at this level

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The schedule

The plan, ticked off as you go ✓

Seven weeks: five of new material, one of writing and speaking, one of mocks. Tap a day when it is done — the sidebar and the library homepage both keep the count.

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Every day · 15 minutes

Flashcard trainer 🎴

Say the Dutch out loud from the English before you flip — recognition is not recall. Mark anything you produced correctly but slowly as hard: at a counter, slow is wrong.

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The word list

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Articles in colour: de · het. Learn every noun with its article attached — de/het decides the relative pronoun and the adjective ending later. Tap a word to hear it, select it for the dictionary.

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Speaking practice

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Each scene has an outcome: a job, a prescription, a repair, a place in a school. Read your side out loud, then cover the Dutch and rebuild it from the English.

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Dagen 42–49 · het examen

Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I — modular, one part at a time

Programma I certifies Dutch at roughly B1: Lezen, Luisteren, Schrijven, Spreken, computer-based, booked and passed one part at a time, with no aggregate average to drag you down. For a psychologist or PhD scholar it is a checkpoint rather than a destination — the level that gets you working in Dutch while you aim at Programma II. Sixteen mock items below; answer, then read why. 🎯

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After B1

B1 gets you working in Dutch. B2 gets you taken seriously in your field.

B2 is the working threshold for a clinician and a researcher: casusbesprekingen, supervision, ethics and consent, official letters that must be decoded rather than admired — and the language gate in the AKV-toets on the route to BIG-registratie. Volume four is written for precisely that.

Ten prepositions a week
Write each verb–preposition pair into a sentence about your own week. This single habit removes the largest remaining error class.
One opinion a day
Say what you think about one news item, out loud, in four sentences: claim, ground, counter, conclusion. That is the NT2 speaking task.
Drill, don't reread
Fifteen minutes in het Taallab beats an hour of rereading — see the psychology module for why.
Open the B2 volume → ← the library A2 volume