u/Phase-Internal

Hey, so there is all this fuss around Proton trying to do linguistic gymnastics around not taking sides after sponsoring a far right french guy and Mullvads ceo donating a lot to a fascist party.

I was wondering if this was an opportunity for Winscribe to say something wild like "we don't like fascists". (No need for virtue signaling, I'd just like to hear it!)

Anyone from Winscribe know if that's something that fits with you? I really like Winscribe, it's been great for me, but I would like it even more if I knew it also wasn't another bunch of nutters.

My wife has gotten a request to send in her passport and the passports of 'all accompanying family members' at, I think, the end of the family sponsorship application (biometrics etc completed months ago).

She is Finnish (needs an ETA to travel to Canada , and this in an outland application, so she needs to send a copy of her passport to the immigration service nearest us.

Do I as the sponsor and our children also need to send copies of our passports as we are all Canadian?

(I am hoping not as our son is 1 and doesn't have a passport yet. We will get one of course before we travel back to Canada).

Short version: I need to achieve a2 dutch very soon (before the requirement for Belgian citizenship changes to B1 - it's still a2 in Brussels). Any great tutors or an online course, or just something I can use to structure and move through this quickly would be fantastic (I cannot take a course at a set time each day due to childcare etc.)

I am not swimming in money but I would be willing to spend a decent amount to get this done. Any recommendations tutors, courses, other ideas, would be fantastic.

Longer justification: I have been trying to get my dutch to an A2 level since November, but have two very demanding very little children and simply no time to take a course (Huis van het nederlands Brussel is not much help in this regard).

I've been working through a textbook series called Derf! used for a course I was enrolled in but couldn't take (baby was supposed to go to daycare but refused to drink from a bottle etc etc). It's not a bad text, but it lacks the overall structure and context a course going along with it would give. My partner is fluent in dutch but not a teacher. We speak english, swedish and to the kids (3 and 1 year olds) so adding dutch for my sake at this moment would be a bit much for them.

The situation I am in is that I have an hour or two a day to study dutch in the evening or maybe after lunch and I need some way of structuring that study to both be able to reach a2 asap (ideally within a month, I'm not at zero now though), but also a bit of a birds eye view to be able to see what I need to know, what I have already studied and forgotten because I haven't slept for more than 4 hours at a time for a year or so now. The latter just to help me keep myself grounded and able to see when I can book an appointment for the test.

My thought is either I need a tutor that is really good at this an willing to work with a pretty challenging goal but up for trying to make it work (recommendations welcome), or some sort of online course or even a really efficient put together book that I can try to power through while trying to reinforce it all with listening, reading etc. Without the time pressure, I'd set up my own plan, and really make sure I am learning the language, not just studying to a test, but I don't have that time right now (the a2 requirement will switch to b1 likely very soon in Brussels for Belgian citizenship).

That said, any suggestions or ideas would be fantastic to hear, this is driving me a bit over the edge, I have 4 degrees, working to an overly tight deadline should be what I am built for but with the lack of sleep and being run over by the kids/keeping the house together/job etc, I'm not really feeling like I have this in any way under control.