Join our Summer English Course in Amsterdam and take your English to the next level at our beautiful private training location on Van Eeghenlaan—right across from the Vondelpark in the Museum Quarter. This intensive course is perfect for learners who want to make fast, lasting progress in a friendly, professional setting.
Just minutes from the Van Gogh, Stedelijk, and Rijks Museum and Vondelpark, our elegant Amsterdam classrooms offer a peaceful, inspiring environment for focused, one-on-one learning. Whether you’re improving your English for work, study, or personal goals, our native-speaker trainers will help you speak with more ease, clarity, and confidence.
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If you want to spend lots of time outdoors this summer, we have some great learning locations for you! Our Van Eeghenlaan location in Amsterdam is right by Vondelpark. When the weather is good, our native English trainers are happy to have “walk and talk” lessons, or to find a nice spot in the sun for a perfect outdoor classroom experience.
Price for our most popular 20 hour Summer English Course in Amsterdam: €1900
Note: English courses are free from added tax (BTW/VAT).
This is 1:1 customized training, so we will start the course when it’s best for you. Tell us your summer schedule and we will get to work on your course dates.
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With this customized approach, you can choose a course that fits your needs and goals. Whether you’re learning English for business success, academic achievement, or personal growth, our language courses are designed to help you succeed.
No, this is a private, 1:1 course designed for individual learners.
Yes! In a private course you will get 100% of your trainer’s attention and you will follow a curriculum that is customized for you – your career, your university course, your interests. While it’s fun to take a course with others, and you can learn a lot, serious learners prefer private training to reach their goals quickly and efficiently.
In addition to our popular VanEeghenlaan location in Amsterdam’s Museum Quarter, we also offer summer English courses at other locations in Amsterdam, as well as in The Hague and Amstelveen.
Please note: All meetings are by appointment only. Contact us to schedule your session.
Yes! The English Center is CEDEO-certified (CEDEO-erkend in het Nederlands) for customized business English training. Your HR department will know what this certification means. Read our CEDEO report here. Or click the icon to go to CEDEO.
Improve Your Professional Skills. In today’s globalized world, English is the language of business. Professionals need English to communicate with colleagues, clients, and partners worldwide. Many international companies require employees to use English daily—for meetings, sales, emails, reports, presentations, and more.
Our Private Customized Business English Lessons focus on practical skills for:
Taught by experienced native-speaker trainers, these lessons are tailored to your level, career goals, and interests, ensuring rapid progress and increased confidence in your professional English abilities.
Note for Amsterdam residents: If you’re making a career change and receiving support from the UVW, you may qualify for funding through the Gemeente Amsterdam Switch program. This could cover your private Business English Job Interview training.
This private English speaking course is for anyone who is tired of “English anxiety,” and wants to communicate more fluently, correctly and confidently. From social chit-chat to communicating better when travelling, or even delivering a persuasive keynote address at a business conference, we have you covered. Whatever your English level or career, we’ll help you speak naturally, clearly and expressively. In this spoken English summer course, you’ll talk a lot and get many corrections for such issues as:
Boost Academic Performance. Does your teen need extra support to improve their English skills before the next school year? Our private 1:1 English classes for teens are designed to help students achieve their academic goals with focused, personalized attention. All lessons are taught by experienced native-speaker teachers.
We help teens improve:
Parents, don’t let English become a source of stress for your teen. With our tailored approach, we’ll help your children build the skills and confidence they need to succeed.
Are you looking for a new job? Are you currently interviewing, or will you be interviewing soon? If you will be speaking English in your job interviews and it’s not your first language, then you should definitely consider some interview preparation training. In this course we go right for the essential components of the job search experience, including:
Through hands on training, active assistance with written communication, interview role playing and spoken English training, you’ll learn how to make a good impression in English, from your CV to the final interview.
C1-C2 Level Fluency. For advanced learners at C1 or C2 levels, our Private Advanced English Intensive Courses are designed to take your skills to the next level. These programs focus on:
Through thought-provoking discussions and stimulating activities, you’ll refine your fluency and gain the confidence to excel in academic or professional settings. Many advanced learners choose to focus on specific areas, such as pronunciation or presentation skills.
IELTS, TOEFL, and Cambridge Exams. Preparing for an English proficiency exam? Our Private Test Preparation Courses will give you the tools you need to succeed. Whether you’re taking the IELTS, TOEFL, or a Cambridge Exam, our experienced tutors will guide you through:
As with all our courses, you can choose a schedule ranging from 10 to 50 hours over one, two, or three weeks—or more. Start quickly and achieve your desired score with personalized guidance.
At The English Center we specialize in customization. That means that we customize every course to ensure it provides you with exactly the learning experience that you need. You can tell us exactly what English skills you need to improve, and we’ll build a course to deliver just that. Through the years, we’ve worked with doctors and lawyers, writers and actors, CEOs, CFOs and mayors, and no two courses were ever exactly alike. Many of these clients needed mixed skill training, combining, for example:
Most clients need to improve more than one skill. Others just want to laser focus on one thing. Whatever your wishlist includes, we will build a course to suit it.
A summer course is a short-term program between June and September designed to help learners achieve specific goals during the summer holiday. At The English Center, our Summer English Courses focus on improving your English skills through personalized lessons.
A summer English course is generally an intensive course, also known as a speed course (spoedcursus in het Nederlands), or an immersion course (onderdompeling in het Nederlands), is a focused learning program that condenses the language learning experience into a short period.
In an intensive immersion course, you are speaking English all the time. All exercises, lessons, conversations and content are in English, and that’s great for your “English brain.” With an English immersion course you will build the “mental muscles,” vocabulary and confidence that you need to speak English well and with ease.
Our private summer Intensive English Courses in Ansterdam usually run 1 to 3 weeks. It depends on the number of hours you choose (10 to 50).
An intensive English course is ideal for professionals improving business communication, teens preparing for a new school year, advanced learners refining fluency, or exam takers preparing for IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge exams. These programs are tailored to your goals and level for maximum progress.
Embark on a Summer English Course with The English Center and combine language learning with exploring the marvelous cities of Amsterdam and The Hague. From private business English lessons to test preparation, our programs cater to learners of all levels and goals.
With our client-focused approach, you’ll benefit from:
Take the leap and invest in YOU this summer! Whether it’s for business, academics, or personal growth, we have the perfect course for you. Contact us today to learn more or call +31 (0)20 823 0569. We’re happy to help you get started!
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All of our summer courses—including Business English, Academic English, and General English—are also available year-round as intensive or weekly programs. Learn more about our intensive courses here.
Please note: All meetings are by appointment only. No drop ins.
