Dutch for the engineers who ship your roadmap.
Your kennismigranten wrote the code. Whether you keep them past year two depends on how quickly they stop being trapped in the English-only bubble at standup, at lunch, and at the Friday borrel.
Tech and engineering profiles our learners work with
Your eng org speaks English. Your company still runs in Dutch.
Eindhoven Brainport and Amsterdam tech look fully English-speaking on the surface. The places where it quietly breaks down are exactly the places that drive year-two retention.
The English-bubble retention cliff
Relocations fail most often in the year-one-to-year-two window. It's not the work, it's the social integration. International engineers who never crack Dutch rarely stay for a second cycle.
Invisible at the Dutch-language standup
Your standup is officially in English. It drifts to Dutch the moment something is urgent. The internationals smile, nod, and quietly lose context on the decisions that matter.
Cultural signals outside the sprint
Lunch, Friday borrel, skip-level conversations, the kitchen. The informal Dutch your team runs on. This is where promotion-grade trust gets built, and it's invisible to Babbel for Business.
Engineering-native Dutch, not generic business Dutch.
Every tech and engineering programme we run is customized to the company. Your dashboard is styled in your brand. Your content library is curated for your engineering culture, your internal jargon, and the Dutch your team actually hears in the office.
Standup, sprint, retro vocabulary
The Dutch that creeps into your ceremonies. Retrospective taal, review Dutch, the specific verbs Dutch engineers use around blockers, dependencies, and scope. Baked into daily episodes.
Technical writing in Dutch
Post-mortems, RFCs, internal documentation in Dutch when you need it. Production-safe register and calibrated technical vocabulary for senior engineering roles.
Chat and casual register
Slack Dutch. The lunch table. The Friday borrel. The casual Dutch your engineers absorb slower because it barely exists in a textbook. We script it directly.
Branded HR dashboard
Your logo, your colours, your squad names. Your VP of Engineering opens it and sees a programme that lives inside the company, not a third-party integration.
Every company programme is fully bespoke. Your HR dashboard is styled to your brand. The content library is curated for your sector and your internal jargon. The coaching reflects your actual workplace register. We do not run you through a template.
A 400-person Amsterdam product company with 30+ internationals
Senior backend and data engineers from India, Ukraine, and Brazil. A1 and A2 at intake. Programme targeted at B1 in 9 months, with a 1:1 coaching layer for the four most-at-risk internationals.
22
Cohort size
16 / 20
A2 to B1 in 9 months
91%
Weekly attendance
+18%
Year-two retention
Illustrative composite based on typical cohort outcomes across our corporate programmes. Real numbers from your specific programme are reported quarterly in your own HR dashboard. We will share a live sample report during the discovery call.
Build a Dutch habit your eng team will actually keep.
Scope a pilot against your actual team in 15 minutes. We will show you the sector-specific dashboard, share a sample report, and quote you a fixed pilot price before you hang up.