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How to start learning a new language from scratch with Taalhammer. Best way to learn a language fast (beginner to fluent level)

If many language learners fail, will you fail too? Have you ever wondered how to start learning a new language? Or was your experience that you were motivated to learn ...
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How to Memorize Words in Another Language

A major key to learning a foreign language is memorizing vocabulary. Without a doubt, this is a challenging task. But the good news is we all possess a degree of ...
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Benefits of Language Learning for Company Culture

Alessandro just moved from Rome to Amsterdam to take up his dream job. He was surprised that quite often the employees in his company communicated in Dutch, not English, like ...
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Anxiety When Speaking a Foreign Language and How to Overcome It

You walk into a café. You notice a group of locals. They’re sitting at the table, chatting in their native foreign language. It’s the one you’ve been trying to study ...
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How Polyglots Learn Languages

Are polyglots just naturally gifted, or are there exact methods for their language learning success? What do they know about how to learn and master languages that most don’t? More ...
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Learning a Language Through Songs

I was once visiting Rotterdam with my friends and we went out on Friday evening. I had been studying Dutch for a few years back then, and I was able ...
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The best way to learn a language is through sentences

While memorising lists of words and grammar rules is one of the most common ways to learn a language, it is also one reason many people end up quitting. It ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Learn Dutch

Expand Your Dutch Vocabulary Fast: How to Kickstart Your Language Learning

If you’re one of the brave souls trying your luck at learning a new language, first things first: pat yourself ...
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The History and Art of Dutch Insults

Understanding the Dutch language, and specifically Dutch slang, will benefit the eager beginner language learner. Learning Dutch swear words and ...
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The most difficult aspects of Dutch grammar

I have been living in Wroclaw for about five years now. I chose this city because it wasn't that far ...
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Days of the week, months and seasons in Dutch

As a student of Dutch philology, I have travelled to Belgium and the Netherlands more than once to explore my ...
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Conjugation of Dutch verbs 

The conjugation of verbs can keep Dutch language learners up at night. Why are they so important and why do ...
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Common phrases in Dutch 

Once, when I went to the Netherlands to visit a friend, I was unexpectedly taken by him to a birthday ...
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Dutch Numbers

Table of ContentsCounting to 10 in DutchDutch Numbers from 10 to 100Dutch Ordinal NumbersWhat is the best way to learn ...
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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 ...
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How to use Taalhammer (30 seconds videos)

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Welcome to Taalhammer, language learning that works

Your journey to fluency in a foreign language has just begun. We think it is important to know a few ...
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How to learn (not only) Dutch with a teacher?

So you want to learn Dutch? We've been there too. This is how the Taalhammer project started. We met in ...
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How to personalise your language learning

You learn 5 times faster, and you remember forever, if you have a contextual or emotional connection with the content ...
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An easy way of improving your teaching with Taalhammer

Artificial intelligence won’t replace teachers We believe that the teacher plays a crucial role in the process of language learning ...
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How to learn a language with Taalhammer

Hi everyone and welcome to this short demo about how to learn a language with taalhammer. You always learn with ...
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What is Taalhammer?

Did you know that more than 80% of language students fail in reaching conversational fluency? Are you one of that ...
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