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Language courses at Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam

Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam is the largest provider of language group-courses in Amsterdam. The university offers courses in 19 languages: Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian-Farsi, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Swedish and Dutch (as second tongue: NT2). The courses address many levels, from beginners to (very) advanced.


Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam works with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This way, students can discover at what language level they can follow a course (applicable to almost all languages). Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam organises language courses in a number of OBA locations: OBA Oosterdok, OBA Javaplein, and OBA Roelof Hartplein. Everyone aged 18 and older is welcome.