Do you want to maintain a language you learnt and are you looking for additional speaking opportunities? Register for an Online Language Café with Linguapolis!
In an Online Language Café, you meet other language learners online at a fixed time. Guided by a native speaker, you spend an hour talking about a country’s culture, current affairs and society – in the language you want to be fluent in!
That’s why an Online Language Café is just the thing for you!
- You want to maintain a language you learnt, and be able to speak it more fluently without worrying about homework or exams.
- You want to meet like-minded people in a relaxed online setting, and continue learning while being guided by a native speaker.
- You want to learn more about the language, culture and society of a country where they speak your target language.
- You can make time once a week to join a one-hour online session without worrying about missing a session at some point.
- You are not an absolute beginner: at minimum, you can talk about yourself using basic phrases.
Curious about this offer?
Registrations for the current series of Online Language Cafés are closed.
A new series will start in November 2024.and isopen to anyone who wants to practise and maintain a language.
We aim to offer OLCs in the following languages:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Italian
- Korean
- Spanish
More information about the price can be found here.
Want to lead an Online Language Café?
Are you passionate about your native language and do you have time each week to share this passion with others? Then be sure to read more about becoming an online café coach at Linguapolis!
What is the difference between an Online Language Café and a language course?
An Online Language Café is not a language lesson: there is no qualified language teacher, homework, exam or certificate.
Still not sure if you should take one of our language courses or an Online Language Café? We’ve made an overview with all the differences. Of course, you can also choose to take both a language course and an OLC.
| Language course | Online Language Café | |
| Languages on offer | Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish | Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Swedish |
| Setting | on campus 100% live online combination | 100% live online |
| Type of course | group course | group sessions |
| Interaction | yes | yes |
| Guidance | by a qualified language teacher (a native or near-native speaker) | by a native or near-native speaker |
| Level assessment | yes, according to the ERK after an oral and written intake interview by Linguapolis | no |
| Skills | speaking, writing, listening, reading | speaking and listening |
| Homework and exam | yes | no |
| Certificate | yes | no |
| Course materials | yes | no |
| E-learning platform | yes | no |
| Culture, society & current affairs | yes | yes |
| Aim | improve your language skills with the possibility of progressing to the next level | maintain or refresh your language skills |