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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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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 ...
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How to hack your memory for efficient language learning with Taalhammer (Part 1)

Whatever language-learning method you are using, one thing remains the same: you need to memorise a large amount of information (typically thousands of words and patterns) and develop reflexes that ...
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If you do the right things (and do them right), you can become fluent in a foreign language faster than you think

Did you know that just 9 words cover 25% of spoken and written English? These words are: and, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you. With another 50 words, ...
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How to battle the fear of speaking a foreign language

Are you learning a foreign language? Do you feel you already know enough to be able to speak but you just mumble – or even worse, freeze – when it ...
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How to talk to strangers in foreign language

So you have just started learning a new language, maybe a month ago or so. And you keep telling yourself, well, wouldn’t it be nice to have a chat with ...
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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

I remember being at the Loveland music festival in Amsterdam. Somewhere in the crowd I got separated from my group ...
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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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