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Dutch, from goedemorgen to a dossier that holds up in five years.

Eight volumes: six CEFR levels, one vocational volume for psychologists on the BIG/AKV route, and one on the psychology of learning a language as an adult. Built for a working professional in the Netherlands — a clinician, a PhD scholar, someone whose Dutch has to survive a gemeente letter, an intake, a vakgroep meeting and a defence.

Begin at A1 → What every button does Drill 14 cards in het Taallab Praxis: psychologists
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words with articles, plurals and glosses
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study days, A1 → C2 plus Praxis
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role-plays from real Dutch rooms
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mock exam items, each explained
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of the whole course ticked off

Het Taalpad

Each volume keeps its own progress in this browser. This is all of it in one strip — tap a volume to continue where you stopped.

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Woord van de dag
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Article roulette. Dutch gives you two choices and no rule that covers them — so this is pure retrieval practice.
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Search every volume

Type Dutch or English. Results come from all eight word lists at once, with the level and theme they belong to — and a link into the volume that teaches them.

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Nothing in the word lists matches that. Select any Dutch word anywhere in these volumes for the dictionary panel — it also generates pronunciation for words that are not on a list.

How long will this take?

Honest arithmetic rather than marketing. Pick the days per week you will actually manage — the projection uses the real day counts in these volumes, not an average.

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What every button does

All eight volumes share one interface, so this is the only time you have to learn it. Nothing here needs an account or a connection — everything is in this browser.

▸ hear it — and shift-click it
Every Dutch word, phrase and dialogue line speaks in a Dutch voice when you click it. Hold shift while clicking to hear the same line word by word, slowly — the one you want for schr-, ui, eu and any sentence you cannot yet hear the seams in.
⌘K — the dictionary, from anywhere
Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) in any volume and search in Dutch or English. You can also select any Dutch text on the page and a small pill appears — click it to look the word up without losing your place. The panel gives the article, the plural, a pronunciation respelling, and a save button.
The day plan is a set of tick boxes
Tap a day when it is finished. That fills the progress bar in the left rail, this hub's Taalpad strip and the projection below — so the number you see is always your own, never a target. Tap again to untick.
Hide English, then test yourself
Every vocabulary list has a switch that blanks the English column. Cover it, say the Dutch from memory, then reveal. Colour tells you the article on sight: cornflower = de, sage = het.
Het Taallab does the remembering
The volumes teach; het Taallab keeps it. Fourteen cards a session across five drill types, scheduled by how well you knew each one — grade honestly and the intervals do the work. Filter by level so it only asks what you have met.
Where to start, concretely
A complete beginner: A1 day 1, and read volume zero in the first week — it is the one that stops you quitting in month four. Already speak some Dutch: open the level you think you are, take its self-check, and drop one level if it stings.

How to study, so it sticks

🕒 One volume open, one drill session
Read the module for the day in the volume, then do fourteen cards in het Taallab. Thirty to fifty minutes, six days a week, beats three hours on Sunday by a wide margin.
🗣️ Produce before you recognise
Every list has a Hide English switch and every line speaks. Say the Dutch out loud from the English first; only then look. Recognition feels like learning and is not.
🏷️ Learn de/het with the noun
The article decides the relative pronoun (die/dat) and the adjective ending. Adding it later costs three times as much as learning it attached.
🚫 Refuse the English
Dutch people switch to English to be kind. “Mag ik het in het Nederlands proberen?” is the single highest-return sentence in this library.
🎟️ Exams are modular — use that
Staatsexamen NT2 is booked and passed part by part. Clear reading and listening first; they improve fastest and a pass stands on its own.
⚖️ Verify every official rule
Inburgering, NT2, AKV and BIG requirements change. Use these volumes for the language and confirm the route with DUO, CNaVT and BIG-register/CIBG.
Progress for every volume is stored in this browser only (keys nl-a1-book … nl-c2-book, nl-psych, nl-lab). Speech uses the Dutch voices installed on your device; if none is present the written pronunciation in the dictionary panel is the reference. Nothing in this library is legal or medical advice.