DamGoodDutch

Learn Dutch.
Through regular exposure.

A short email, twice a week. One everyday word, the story behind it, and sentences you can actually use.

Free. Tuesday and Saturday at 7am.
First lesson on Tuesday 3 November.

koffie
coffee
18.6 billion cups a year. Over half of them at work.
fiets
bicycle
The first thing you buy, and the first thing that gets stolen.
tikkie
a payment request
An app that became a verb. €2.40, six weeks late.
gezellig
no English for this
Cosy, fun and friendly at once. English needs three words for it.
hagelslag
chocolate sprinkles
Chocolate sprinkles on buttered bread, eaten by adults.
pinnen
to pay by card
Try paying with a fifty-euro note. Watch the bakery panic.
lekker
good, nice, tasty…
The answer to almost every question. No follow-up needed.
trap
stairs
Steep enough to need both hands and a little bravery.
storing
fault, disruption
What the train board says when nothing is moving.