About Us
The Dutch Language School was established in 2001 to promote the Dutch language and Dutch culture and aims to provide high quality teaching & tuition in the Dutch language.
We believe that Dutch is an easy language to learn for English speakers (compared to say French, German or Spanish) having a straightforward grammar and many of the same or similar words to English.
Karin de Wijs
The head teacher and founder of the Dutch Language School is Karin de Wijs. Karin is a Dutch national and Dutch native speaker who originates from the town of 's Hertogenbosch in the south of the Netherlands. She graduated in 1986 as a secondary school teacher from the Fontys Hogescholen in Tilburg (formerly Moller Instituut) specialising in Dutch and Social Studies.
Since then Karin has taught Dutch at language schools in the Netherlands, Belgium and England, including at the European School near Oxford.
In addition to running the Dutch Language School Karin also teaches Dutch at the Oxford University Language Centre.
Bregje van Tiel
Bregje van Tiel moved to the United Kingdom in 2006 and lives with her British husband and two children. Bregje trained as a NT2 teacher at Inholland University of Applied Sciences.
Since 2014, she has been involved in Dutch education in England. She then started as a teacher at the NTC school De Droomtorens in Oxford, where Bregje subsequently became head teacher in September 2023. Bregje also teaches in London.
With great enthusiasm and positive motivation, Bregje will start at the Dutch Language School in April 2025, where she will run a Beginners group.