Dutch course · A0 to C1
Learn Dutch, A0 to C1
307 short lessons in the Swipelijk app: words, grammar, stories, listening and conversations you answer out loud. Start at your level. On iPhone and Android.
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307 lessons in the course, a few minutes each
6 levels, from your first words to C1
4 app languages: English, Nederlands, العربية, Türkçe
5 inburgering exam parts in the same app
Six levels
Each level is a house on your street. Every lesson you finish lights a window.
A0 Complete beginner
Your first Dutch words and phrases
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- Welcome & Panic
- Articles: de, het & een
- Basic Word Order
- Build Your First Sentences
- Arrival at Schiphol
- Food Survival
- Making Plurals: -en & -s
- Polite Phrases: graag & alstublieft
- Order Your Food
- At the Supermarket
- Numbers & Pointing
- Numbers 1: 20
- This & That: dit, dat, deze, die
- Count & Order
- At the Bakery
- Survival Phrases
- Survival Phrases Quiz
- Articles: de / het
- Welcome to the Netherlands
- Numbers
- Numbers Quiz
- Numbers in Sentences
- At the Store
- Build Number Sentences
- Colors & Adjectives
- Colors Quiz
- Days, Months & Seasons
- Calendar Quiz
- Family Members
- Possessives: mijn / jouw / zijn / haar
- Food & Drinks
- At the Café
- Transport & Directions
- Getting Around Amsterdam
A1 Basic Dutch
Simple conversations and daily life
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- Basic Greetings
- Introducing Yourself
- Present Tense: Regular Verbs
- Zijn & Hebben: To Be & To Have
- Introduce Yourself
- Lost at Schiphol
- The Dutch Introduction
- Meeting a Neighbor
- Numbers 1-20
- Money & Payment
- Shopping Essentials
- Supermarket Survival
- Asking Questions
- Negation: niet vs geen
- Shopping Sentences
- Market Adventures
- The Supermarket Chaos
- At the Market
- Drinks & Socializing
- Dutch Food Basics
- Ordering & Restaurant Phrases
- Terrace Culture
- Phone & SIM Card
- Modal Verbs: willen & kunnen
- Adjective Agreement
- Order at a Cafe
- Terrace Emergency
- The Friday Borrel
- Terrace Time
- Family & Birthdays
- Possessive Pronouns
- Reflexive Verbs
- The Circle of Terror
- Meeting the Dutch In-Laws
- Time & Scheduling
- Days & Weeks
- Time Prepositions: om, op, in
- Separable Verbs
- The Impossible Coffee
- Train & Bike Survival
- Directions & Navigation
- Your First Bike
- Place Prepositions
- Er & Daar
- The Silent Train
- The Bike Lane Incident
- The €20 Mistake
- Everyday Conversations
- First Day in Amsterdam
- Present Tense Conjugation
- Meeting Someone New
- Everyday Phrases Quiz
- Build Introductions
- At the Supermarket
- Adjective Inflection
- A Day at the Supermarket
- At the Checkout
- Supermarket Vocabulary Quiz
- Listening: Shopping List
- Housing & Home
- Prepositions of Place
- Housing Vocabulary Quiz
- Finding an Apartment in Utrecht
- Healthcare & Body
- Modal Verbs: kunnen / moeten / willen / mogen
- At the Doctor
- Time & Scheduling
- Days & Weeks
- Body & Health
- Introduce Yourself
- Meeting a Neighbor
- Family Members
- Birthdays & Celebrations
- Possessives & Family
- The Circle of Terror
- Train & Bike Survival
- Directions & Navigation
- Finding the Train
- The Bike Lane Incident
- Transport Vocabulary Quiz
- Daily Greetings
- At the Supermarket
- Word Order Basics
- Questions & Negation
A2 ElementaryThe inburgering exam's level
Read signs, fill forms, make calls
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- The Weekend Ritual
- Common Past Tense Verbs
- Your First Dutch Bank Account (Spoiler: You Need Your BSN)
- Perfect Tense: hebben/zijn + past participle
- Simple Past: Regular Verbs
- Past Tense Sentences
- Monday Morning Inquisition
- The Perfect Weekend Lie
- Surviving the Gemeente: A Bureaucracy Adventure
- The Dutch Shopping Experience
- Finding a Place to Live (€1500 for 40m²? That's a 'Steal')
- The Huisarts, Paracetamol, and Biking It Off
- Comparatives & Superlatives
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Sentences with Separable Verbs
- Checkout Chaos
- The Folder Strategy
- Dutch Living
- Housing Search Survival
- Dutch Job Interviews: Direct Questions, Direct Answers
- Geachte, Beste, and When to Use What
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- Word Order in Subclauses
- Because-Clauses (omdat)
- The Housewarming
- The Viewing Battle
- Returns, Refunds, and Dutch Customer Service
- Dutch Weather Survival
- The Art of Complaining
- Koningsdag, Sinterklaas, and Two Gift Seasons
- 'They Delivered While You Were Home? It's at the Neighbours.'
- Irregular Past Tense
- All Uses of 'Er'
- The Wet Commute
- The Buienradar Religion
- Borrels, Agendas, and Booking Spontaneity Three Weeks Ahead
- Dealing with Illness
- Te + Infinitive
- Modal Verbs: moeten, mogen, hoeven
- The Doctor's Assistant
- Club Life
- Relative Clauses: die & dat
- Future Tense: gaan & zullen
- The Tennis Club
- Your First Bardienst
- Work & Study
- Past Tense with Hebben
- Work Vocabulary Quiz
- Starting a New Job in the Netherlands
- Build Work Sentences
- Listening: At the Office
- Your First Day at Work
- Money & Banking
- Simple Past Tense (Imperfect)
- At the Bank
- Build Money Sentences
- Listening: At the Bank
- Dutch Culture & Traditions
- Dutch Holidays and Traditions
- Culture Vocabulary Quiz
- Celebrating Koningsdag
- Build Culture Sentences
- Dutch Weather Survival
- Housing & The Dutch Home
- Hobbies & Sports
- Expressing Frequency
- Talking About Hobbies
- Dutch Healthcare System
- At the Doctor's
- Paracetamol & Rest
- Banking & Administration
- Formal Dutch Email
- Er + preposition constructions
- Making an Appointment
- Describing Your Day
- Separable Verbs
- Time & Place
- Modal Verbs
B1 Intermediate
Express opinions and follow news
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- Dutch Office Culture
- Meeting & Email Language
- The Endless Meeting
- Office Culture Deep Dive
- Performance Reviews
- Remote Work & Hybrid
- Contracts & Terms
- Career Steps
- Passive Voice
- Conditional: zou & zouden
- The Friday Afternoon Ritual
- Vrijmibo Survival Guide
- Monday Morning at the Coffee Machine
- Signing Your First Dutch Contract
- Dutch Directness
- Presenting in Dutch
- Advanced Phone Conversations
- Networking Events
- Professional Emails
- Office Small Talk
- Presentation Phrases
- Reported Speech
- Double Infinitive
- Past Tense: Perfectum vs Imperfectum
- Word Order in Subclauses
- Subordinate Clauses: omdat, dat
- Your First Dutch Performance Review
- Disagreeing Politely in a Meeting
- The Reply That Was Too Direct
- News & Television
- Dutch News & Media
- Understanding Dutch Humor
- Social Media & Online
- Debates & Opinions
- Podcasts & Audio
- Om...te Constructions
- Complex Sentence Building
- Complex Sentences
- The 8 O'Clock News
- Dealing with Bureaucracy
- Reading the Comments
- Understanding the NOS Headlines
- Customer Service
- Returns & Refunds
- Insurance Basics
- Complaint Phrases
- Formal vs Informal Register
- Advanced Connectors
- Iets, Niets & Ergens, Nergens
- No WiFi, No Life
- The Defective Oven
- The Broken Washing Machine
- The Stolen Bicycle
- Current Events & Society
- Passive Voice
- Dutch News: Climate Policy
- Work & Career
- Relative Clauses with Die and Dat
- Job Interview in Dutch
- Politics & Government
- How Dutch Democracy Works
- Politics Vocabulary Quiz
- Perfectum: Past Tense
- News Headlines
- At the Doctor
- Subordinate Clauses
- Relative Clauses
- Inversion After Adverbs
B2 Upper intermediate
Professional Dutch and complex topics
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- Formal Dutch
- Formal Email & Correspondence
- Argumentation & Logic
- Complex Subordinate Clauses
- Passive in Formal Writing
- Formal Requests
- The Angry Letter
- The Board Meeting
- Deep Feelings
- Empathy & Support
- Resilience & Coping
- Indirect Speech & Reported Feelings
- Advanced Conditionals
- Passive and Relative Clauses
- A Good Talk
- Saying No at Work
- Going Green
- Climate Policy & Debate
- Recycling & Waste
- Relative Clauses (die/dat/wat)
- Nominalization
- The Solar Panel Expert
- The Dinner Table Climate Debate
- Dutch History 101
- Debate & Opinion (B2)
- Identity & Belonging
- Integration Exam Prep
- Formal vs Informal (B2)
- Complex Connectors (B2)
- The Museum Tour
- 4 May: Remembrance Day
- Citizenship Interview
- Business Dutch
- Conditional Sentences
- Writing a Business Email in Dutch
- Formal Writing Vocabulary
- Formal Business Meeting
- Formal Email Vocabulary
- News Article Vocabulary
- Telephoning & Appointments
- Dutch Idioms & Expressions
- Negotiation & Persuasion Language
- Conditional & Subjunctive
- Perfect Tense Word Order
- Complex Sentences
C1 Advanced
Near-native fluency and academic Dutch
Lesson topics
Each lesson opens in the app.
- Dutch Idioms That Don't Translate
- The Job Interview
- Idiom Phrases
- Nuance and Hedging
- Saying It Without Saying It
- The Delicate Feedback Round
- The Book Club
- Idioms & Fixed Expressions
- Literary Dutch: Max Havelaar
- Academic Argument Structure
- Nuanced Modal Verbs
- Formal Report Language
- Complex Subordinate Clauses
- Register Shifting
- Advanced Discourse Markers
- Formal & Academic Dutch
What a lesson is like
- Word cardsSwipe right when you know it, left when you are still learning. The words come back for review.
- GrammarOne rule at a time, with examples you can hear, then exercises.
- StoriesShort Dutch stories. Tap a word or phrase to see what it means.
- ConversationsEveryday scenes where you answer out loud.
- ListeningEvery Dutch sentence read by a natural voice, with dictation to train your ear.
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