Give your learning a place in your week. Use this plan as a guide, take time to practise and move forward when you feel ready.
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For example, start with 15–20 minutes on four days each week. Add more practice when it suits you.
Open a chapter overview and work through its lessons and exercises. Repeat difficult parts before continuing.
The ten-week route below is an example, not a deadline. One study week may take several calendar weeks.
Short sessions help you build a routine; they are not a promise that you will finish the course in ten weeks or reach a particular language level.
Focus on one small part of a lesson. You do not need to finish a whole lesson in one session.
Review a few words or sentences from your last session.
Study a small section. Look at the pictures and listen to the audio.
Speak aloud, make a sentence or complete an exercise.
Check your answers and repeat what was difficult.
These times are only a suggestion. Pause a recording, replay it or spend longer on an exercise whenever you need to.
Allow roughly two study weeks per chapter as a starting plan. Include the exercises along the way, not only at the end.
Start with the introduction, greetings and the first pronunciation lessons. Practise asking what something is called.
Continue with pronunciation, home and personal details, the alphabet and flashcards. Revisit both sets of chapter exercises.
Learn about family, where things are and Dutch sounds. Use personal pronouns in short sentences.
Continue with sentences, senses, colours, numbers and telling the time. Use the flashcards and chapter exercises.
Explore regular and irregular verbs. Practise zijn, hebben and willen in simple sentences.
Continue with common verbs, food and drinks, de and het. Practise asking and answering questions.
Practise saying who something belongs to, arranging words and using nee, niet and nooit.
Explore diminutives, plurals, comparisons and descriptions. Practise shopping language and common helping verbs.
Work through separable verbs, er and further verb patterns. Take extra time with unfamiliar ideas.
Explore te and wat, combine sentences and practise talking about the weather. Review the topics you find difficult.
You do not need to be perfect. Use these questions to decide what to repeat.
Continue with these activities after the five chapters, or add a small amount whenever you feel ready.
Start with a manageable text. Read it again and notice words you recognise.
Reading practice →Practise with a learning partner, volunteer or teacher. Optional AI activities can give you more ideas, but AI can make mistakes.
AI practice guide →Use flashcards and exercises to check what you remember. Repeat the cards you find difficult.
Practise with flashcards →Pick a day and time, then start with the chapter 1 introduction. If you miss a session, simply continue at your next opportunity.
Start chapter 1 →Back to the course introduction