Conjugation of Dutch verbs
The conjugation of verbs can keep Dutch language learners up at night. Why are they so important and why do people have so many problems with them? How to tackle…
Common phrases in Dutch
Once, when I went to the Netherlands to visit a friend, I was unexpectedly taken by him to a birthday party of a close friend of his. I must admit…
Dutch Numbers
I remember being at the Loveland music festival in Amsterdam. Somewhere in the crowd I got separated from my group. But it wasn’t so bad, because I met a girl…
The power of learning a language with sentences
Learning a language by memorising sentences has been one of the most efficient ways to improve language skills for decades. It has been used by linguists and polyglots around the…
The crucial exercise when you learn a language
If you are not creating your own content while learning a foreign language, you are missing a huge opportunity / crucial ingredient. In this short video I am going to…
Why are you wasting your time learning foreign language
If you are trying to learn a foreign language, you are probably wasting your time. In this video I am going to explain why and what you need to do…
When to use “De” and “Het” in Dutch
When you start learning Dutch, you will quickly realise that without knowing the basics of how to use the definite articles, to use “De” and “Het” in Dutch it will…
How to hack your memory for efficient language learning with Taalhammer (Part 2)
In order to learn foreign language you need to memorize thousands of words and sentence patterns. There is just no other way. Memorization is fundamental to language learning. However, the…