If you’re a SENSE member, don’t forget to register for the Annual General Meeting on 28 March in Utrecht.
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Find someone to write, edit, proofread, index, interpret, report, subtitle, train, transcribe, translate, or teach English.



Browse our events calendar for upcoming webinars, workshops, professional development days and informal get-togethers.



Living in the Netherlands? Doing language work? Working in English?

Join the society for English-language professionals in the Netherlands!

What is SENSE, and what does SENSE do?

SENSE is a society for English-language professionals based in the Netherlands. We are a community of language workers who work from or into English, with a connection to the Netherlands.

Attend informal get-togethers

SENSE regularly hosts meetings (SIGs) for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online.

Forum for members only

SENSE's web forum is where members can post questions, give answers, and chat with other members. There is also a jobs category where jobs are posted from potential clients who visited the SENSE website.

Get a mentor to guide you

SENSE has a mentoring programme whereby experienced SENSE members can help inexperienced members for a small fee (subsidized by SENSE).

Event calendar / agenda

Never miss an event! Discover upcoming webinars, workshops and social events on the SENSE Calender, or browse through the ones that you have missed.

Contact other members easily

SENSE members are encouraged to make contact with other members. That is what being in a society is all about. All SENSE members can search for or browse the list of current SENSE members.

Read our regular blog

SENSE members and guest authors post meeting reports and interesting articles on the SENSE Blog. It also represents an opportunity to budding copywriters to get their name on screen.

Guidelines for student texts

SENSE has prepared its own "Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts" and a "Form to Confirm Proofreading Services". Download them free of charge.

Best practices

The Dutch Convenant explains what freelance translators and translation agencies in the Netherlands typically consider good practice in their dealings with each other. Visit sense-online.nl/dutch-covenant.

English as a Lingua Nordica 2024: Language in a Changing World

English as a Lingua Nordica (ELN) is a seminar series by Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT), a community of English-language professionals in and beyond the Nordic countries. Join us in Turku/Åbo for this two-day conference organized together with trade union Kieliasiantuntijat (Language Experts) entitled 'English as a Lingua Nordica: Language in a Changing World' (#ELN2024). See programme and information.

Registration is now open: register here.Turku

Turku/Åbo is a bilingual city in southwest Finland, with a direct ferry link to Stockholm, good train connections to Helsinki, and a strong tradition of language and translation studies. The venue, Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki, is located at the heart of the Turku Science Park, between the universities.