Our services
The House is the leading partner for Dutch in Brussels. We are here for all Brussels-residents, teachers of Dutch as a foreign language, companies, colleges, schools and nurseries, community centres and sports, cultural and other organisations.
Individual advice and registrations
We help everyone with questions about learning and practising Dutch for adults in Brussels.
We offer advice on courses Dutch as a foreign language, self-study and activities for practising Dutch.
Candidates can also register with us directly for NT2 courses in Dutch-speaking adult education in Brussels.
We collaborate intensively with the Dutch-speaking adult education centres: we analyse what courses the people of Brussels need and the schools adapt their teaching range accordingly. As a result, we can almost always find the right course for the right person.
Certification tests
If you need a certificate to prove your proficiency in Dutch, you can take a test at the House. For example, evidence for a nationality application, for working or studying, or for prioritising a child's enrolment in Dutch-speaking education.
Practise opportunities and language promotion
You don't learn Dutch in the classroom alone. We want people from Brussels to be able to practise Dutch as much as possible. That is why we help Dutch-speaking leisure organisations to be a practise opportunity and support them in organising conversation activities.
In addition, we create practise opportunities ourselves:
- The urban game Plonge for exploring Dutch in Brussels
- Patati.be to find a Dutch-speaking exchange partner
- Our Babbelut conversation tables for practising Dutch
All activities and tips for practising Dutch can be found at huisnederlandsbrussel.be/oefenen. And with the 'taaliconen', you can immediately see the level of Dutch required to quickly participate in each activity.
Companies, schools and organisations
Numerous companies, schools and organisations work with us. They have language-related questions or want to start a language policy or language activities. This involves, for example:
- Companies and organisations with questions about Dutch for their employees or their public.
- Organisations that want to become places where people can practise Dutch
- Dutch-speaking vocational training programmes that want to make their lessons more accessible to non-Dutch speakers
- Dutch-speaking schools, daycare centres and consultancies that want to work on Dutch for parents
Teachers NT2
For NT2 teachers, we organise activities and offer tips and material for the classroom. We work together with the teachers to suit the Dutch lessons in Brussels as much as possible to the inhabitants of Brussels and the city.
Volunteers
Over 80 volunteers help us to organise 7 locations and online conversation tables every week. They guide the conversations and stimulate the participants. We are in close contact every week and thank them annually with our volunteer activities.
Working at the Dutch Language House
Our DNA is a great mix. More than 30 of our 85 colleagues have a migration background. This supplies the House a wealth of cultural and linguistic resources. Our team features more than 20 different native languages.
This super-diversity offers great added value to us and our visitors. We actively pursue it. When recruiting, we remove as many unnecessary barriers as possible. And we also do this within the organisation. For example: our internal communication takes place in clear Dutch.
We don’t work on inclusion all by ourselves. We involve partners to advise us and to establish links with target groups that we find more difficult to reach.
Our team
Board Open
Frans De Keyser, chairman
Board directors: Daan Uytterhaegen — Dimokritos Kavadias — Fanny Grooten — Filip De Pillecyn — Kassandra Bulckaert — Koen Muziek — Michel Beerlandt — Nadine De Coster — Nikolaj Vercruysse — Ria Cauchie — Steven Vervoort
Management Open
Patrick Manghelinckx, General Manager
Reception Open
The warmest welcome. Welcome to the Dutch Language House!
Ouiem Guezmil
Screening & orientation Open
Find the Dutch course that suits you.
Ann Goeminne — Antonio Cabrera — Anush Artashesyan — Asmae Ajellabi — Azar Behrouz — Bavo Verhaegen — Bono Depoorter — Fèlix Torres Miralles — Geertrui Bamps — Griet Descheemaeker — Heleen Savels — Ilias Labsir — Isabelle Pfeiffer — Kanza Benabid — Karima El Haddouchi — Katrien Quirijnen — Ken Lossy — Lieve De Neef — Meriam Azeriah — Olga Kamburova — Rana Celiktas — Renée Fierens — Sabine Riche — Safae Ettahri — Sayed Darder — Simon Danneels
Coordination: Patrick Manghelinckx
Business services Open
Supports the whole House. With contracts, premises, accounting, logistics, software and hardware and so much more.
Carlos Calvo Rivas — Diana Poleuke — Emad Bzr — Kristien Pepermans — Peter Pirard — Philip De Paepe —Wim Van Gucht
Coordination: Patrick Manghelinckx
HR Open
Makes working at the Dutch Language House pleasant and educational.
Ann Bockstal
Coordination: Kristien Verheyen
Language policy Open
Need advice on your language policy? Companies and organisations, large and small, should contact this team.
Dorien De Man — Eva de Vree — Iwona Lowicka — Karen Verhasselt — Katleen Kayaert — Marianne Wals —Nabil Khazzaka — Nele Bullekens — Stefanie Delplanche — Veerle Demeulenaere — Vera Tylzanowski
Coordination: Peter Jolling
Language promotion and practice Open
More practise opportunities for more Brussels residents - the sky’s the limit.
Cleo Martens — Daniëlla Peeters — Ella Eyckmans — Erlisa Aliaj — Griet Rigole — Gwyn Bouwman — Hafiz Nangmal — Hans Bauters — Joke Vermeersch — Lena De Koninck — Marlieke Shaw — Nele De Zutter — Nele Hendrikx — Saar Timmermans — Sien Ponet — Silke Borremans
Coordination: Jo Wuyts
Staff support Open
Follow-up of policy dossiers, from Brussels to Flanders and back.
Caroline van den Buijs
Working with NT2 teachers to increase interaction inside and outside the classroom.
Eva De Raedt — Kristien Mertens
From the smallest agenda item to making the impossible possible.
Anna Gordeeva, assistant to the Director
Coordination: Patrick Manghelinckx
Communication Open
We show what we do. In words and images.
Frederique Gouvars — Kathleen Deridder
Coordination: Brenda Deny