Yes. Lessons are one to one over video and explained in English or Urdu, so a child schooled in Dutch is not also learning Arabic, Turkish or Berber in order to follow the teacher. Late-afternoon slots on Dutch time, fees published in euros from 35 a month, and up to three free trial classes.
What Dutch families run into
Most Quran teaching within reach of a family in the Netherlands happens at a mosque, and it is taught in the language of the community that built it -- Arabic, Turkish, Berber. For a child whose home language is Urdu, Dutch or English, the teaching language is an obstacle standing in front of the first letter.
The second thing parents describe is the size of the class. Twenty or thirty children, one teacher, one hour a week. Nobody hears your child read, so nobody corrects them, and a sound learned wrong at six is still wrong at eleven.
How the week fits a Dutch school day
- After school
- A 4pm or 5pm slot in Amsterdam or Rotterdam is an ordinary working evening for a teacher in Lahore, three to four hours ahead depending on the season.
- Wednesday afternoon
- Many Dutch primary schools finish at midday on Wednesday. It is the easiest half-day in the week to give to something, because nothing else is competing for it.
- Thirty minutes
- Long enough to read a page properly, short enough that a child still has the attention for it after a full school day.
- Weekends
- Saturday and Sunday mornings, Dutch time, for families who keep weekdays clear.
The same slot and the same teacher every week. Nobody is swapped without asking you first.
One lesson a week is not enough for a child starting from the first Arabic letter. Three short ones beat one long one, because what is being built is a memory of sound, and sound fades faster than a week.
Which language the lesson is explained in
- Explanation in English, which most children in the Netherlands read comfortably by the time they are eight or nine.
- Explanation in Urdu, if that is the language spoken at home.
- The recitation itself in Arabic, as it has to be.
- No Dutch is needed from the teacher, and none is used in the lesson.
Tell us which you want before the trial rather than after it. Changing the language of explanation means changing teacher, and that is better done before your child has settled with one.
What a month costs in euros
- 2 days a week
- 8 lessons of 30 minutes — €35 a month
- 3 days a week
- 12 lessons of 30 minutes — €44 a month
- 4 days a week
- 16 lessons of 30 minutes — €52 a month
- 5 days a week
- 20 lessons of 30 minutes — €58 a month
No registration fee, no contract and no minimum term. No card is taken for the trial classes.
A 45-minute and a one-hour lesson are also available, for teenagers and for Hifz, translation and Tafseer. Ask for one when you book rather than after, so the teacher assigned is the right one.
What to check before enrolling anywhere
- Is the lesson genuinely one to one, or a small group described as personal attention?
- Is the fee published in euros on the website, before anyone asks for your phone number?
- Will it be the same teacher every week, and can you have their name before you pay?
- Is a second adult from the academy on the call, and may you sit in unannounced?
- What happens to a lesson your child misses through illness — is it lost, or moved?
These are not our questions. They are the five that separate one academy from another, and any academy worth enrolling with answers all five in a sentence each.
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What a month costs
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