A2 part 2 – Beyond the Basics

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After completing A2 Part 1, this course takes you further toward the official Dutch A2 exam and CEFR A2 certificate.

It is designed for international learners, expats and newcomers living in the Netherlands who want to improve their Dutch online with confidence.


In this course you will expand your vocabulary and practise essential grammar such as the perfect tense, indirect speech and subclauses.

You will learn to express opinions, describe experiences, compare choices and reflect on past events while applying Dutch to real-life situations like housing, school, health and work.


By the end of A2 Part 2 you will be able to manage everyday conversations more fluently, write with greater accuracy, and prepare effectively for the A2 Dutch exam and certification in Part 3.


What You Will Learn:

Pick and Choose

Learn to compare options with the comparative and superlative and practise using “er is/er zijn.”

Perfect routines

Start using the perfect tense to talk about daily habits and routines in more detail.

Health and Doctors

Talk about health, feelings and doctor visits while practising new sentence structures.

Events and planning

Learn to use subclauses with omdat, terwijl and toen to describe events and formal processes.

Renting and rules

Practise indirect speech to talk about rules, agreements and renting situations.

Daycare and school

Use indirect objects and separable verbs while describing routines around school and daycare.

Insurances and municipalities

Learn to use the pluperfect tense to talk about official processes and responsibilities.

Course contents