Dutch for English speakers
English and Dutch are close enough to feel familiar and different enough to catch you out. We use the vocabulary you already recognize, then tackle the word order, vowels, and everyday expressions that make your Dutch sound like Dutch.
From €25 per lesson with the ten-lesson package (€250 prepaid).
The situations we build around
- Speaking Dutch at work, with family, or while settling into the Netherlands.
- Word order, verb placement, and the small words that make sentences flow.
- Vowels, the g and ch, and the listening skills for the places where Dutch speeds up.
For English speakers moving to the Netherlands
If you have moved for work or a relationship, the pressure is not academic. You need to get through a meeting, a school email, a neighbor’s question. We use those situations, while giving the pronunciation the attention it deserves.
The bridge: familiar words, unfamiliar order
Dutch and English are both Germanic languages, and the everyday vocabulary overlaps heavily: huis and house, boek and book, water and water. The traps are just as useful: Dutch “room” can mean cream, and “gift” means poison. Word order can put the verb in places your English instinct resists. We use the similarities, name the false friends, and make the word order physical through speaking.
A Germanic pair with the same everyday meaning and a recognizable sound shape.
Both words descend from the same Germanic root; pronunciation drifted apart.
Good to know
- 50-minute one-to-one lessons, online.
- Explanations in your own language, in plain words.
- From €25 per lesson with the ten-lesson package.
- For adults (18+). Camera optional. Times agreed in Lisbon time.
- A free 15-minute intro call before your first lesson.
From €25 per lesson with the ten-lesson package (€250 prepaid).
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Dutch, explained in English.
Tell me where Dutch feels close to English and where it stops making sense. We will work from both.