Hi. I’m wondering if anyone could recommend a good way to learn Dutch. A few months ago, I came across this website How to learn Japanese from tofugu. It recommended learning hiragana, basic kanji pronunciation, how to pronounce characters, and everything related to mnemonics in order to remember everything as well as possible.
I wonder if anyone could recommend a good way to learn Dutch? Perhaps someone who is currently learning it or has a favorite set of Anki flashcards or a YouTube channel worth recommending?
Picture of Dutch woman in Japan
In my own personal experience: live in The Netherlands and go work in a small company were pretty much everybody is Dutch and the management wants to help you learn Dutch (so they keep doing all meetings in Dutch even though everybody there could speak English).
After a couple of years living there working in English-speaking multinational environments and thus without learning much Dutch, that specific situation forced my Dutch speaking skills to improve massively in a mere 3 months.
Otherwise it’s pretty hard to learn Dutch, IMHO, unless you’re starting from German (even better, Swiss-German) which is maybe the closest language to it (and Dutch grammar is actually simpler).
Oh… shitttttt. I shouldn’t skip German lessons in high school now that I think about it.