Dutch Language : Nederlands
Dutch Language is a West Germanic language that is spoken in the European Union by about 23 million people as a first language—including most of the population of the Netherlands and about sixty percent of that of Belgium—and by another 5 million as a second language.
Outside of the Low Countries, it is spoken natively by the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curacao and Saint. Historical minorities remain in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States, Canada and Australia combined. The Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia.
Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English and is said to be roughly in between them. Dutch has—like English—not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has leveled much of its morphology, including the case system. Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical genders—albeit with few grammatical consequences—and the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and V2 with subject–object–verb word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but fewer than English.
Dutch Levels in A.L.I
Stage 1: Elementary
Number of levels : Level 1 – Level 2
Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course
Stage 2: Intermediate
Number of levels : Level 3 – Level 4
Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course
Stage 3 : Advanced
Number of levels : Level 5
Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course
Advanced Stages :
Conversation :
Number of levels : level 1 –level 2
Duration : 15 Lectures in a private course