Recently started learning Dutch and most of it has been pretty doable, until 1 through 20 was fine then I got to twintig and the whole thing flipped on me.

21 is "one and twenty" (eenentwintig), 32 is tweeëndertig with a diaeresis on the ën because of the vowel collision, and the longer numbers all chain into one single word so they look like four syllables longer than they are.

Now, every time I see a number I'm doing a small mental flip to put it in the right order.

Out of everything I tried to help me understand, Babbel seemed to have the clearest explanation. It walked through the en rule and the diaeresis pattern and helped more than the YouTube videos I kept watching.

Still doesn't come automatically to me though but I’m just glad I got some explanation.

Please tell me I’m not alone in this confusion. lol. For anyone who's been through this, how did you drill it until the order swap stopped requiring a conscious flip?

Did you do loads of repetition with audio, or was there a specific exercise that helped?

Letterlijk. Het zegt:

"Toen wachtte hij in de hoogte, veilig verborgen tussen gebladerte, hijgend af wat er zou gebeuren."

Ik ken dat niet. Ik ken "hijgen", maar die samenstelling klinkt raar voor mij. Ik zou daar "wachtend af" of zoiets zetten (ook al zou dat niet leuk klinken, vanwegen de herhaling).

Hello, sorry for the trouble I know this is not related to this subreddit but I'm out of options.

I've sent by a mistake of one digit to a Hong Kong account (it was supposed to be a store in HK).

I tried to reach out the bank in HK, they told me there's nothing to do. So here I'm trying to reach out Rick.

If anyone know who is Rick. I need to find him

Please reddit, send me some help.

¡Hola! Me llamo Jorinde. Vivo en Ámsterdam y hablo neerlandés con fluidez. Quiero aprender español para un viaje que tengo próximamente a Sudamérica con unos amigos hispanohablantes :D

Me encantaría hacer crosstalk contigo. Mándame un mensaje y te paso un enlace de Calendly para que empecemos a hacer videollamadas enseguida :)

¡Espero hablar contigo pronto!

It's funny how learning a new word can suddenly make it feel like it's everywhere. You might go weeks without noticing it, then learn what it means and suddenly start spotting it in conversations, on signs, in shops, or while watching Dutch TV.

I think it's one of those little moments that makes learning a language feel rewarding because you realise you're starting to notice things you would have completely missed before.

Which Dutch word gave you that experience? Was there a word you learned recently that suddenly seemed to pop up everywhere you looked?

I don’t know about you, but I’m someone who relies heavily on making connections; not just for memorising, but for processing new interpretations.

The point is, when learning languages I make extensive use of mnemonics; which involve mentally associating a concept with sounds, images, other words, etc.

One of my favourites in Dutch is for the word ‘Misschien’, which I remember as a female French dog, lmao.
Miss = Title for a young, unmarried woman.
Chien = Dog in French.

So I was wondering, do you have any mnemonics for Dutch? hahah

Het ging goed, twee bladzijden per dag lezen, dagelijks 1 of 2 uur lezen. Maar toen kwam ik voor dit Kafkalijke uitdaging te staan 😂

alsjeblieft zou je feedback kunnen geven als ik iets verkeerd of niet helemaal correct heb geschreven in de definities van de woorden.

Ik heb binnen 1 maand een 21+ toets om de the hague uneversity of applied siences binnen te komen, Echter heb ik een probleem. Ik heb een pakket gekocht via de website (hellotest) hierin kun je oefenen toetsen maken en voorbereiden. De 21+ toets bestaat uit 8 onderdelen waarvan 2 nederlands, 2 rekenen en 4 IQ gerelateerd. Ik scoor voor rekenen en IQ gedeeltes goed, maar voor mijn nederlands scoor ik juist slecht. De 2 onderdelen zijn woordanalogieën en woordrelaties hier scoor ik slecht vanwege mijn lage nederlandse woordenschat. Heeft iemand ervaring met de 21+ toets en het nederlandse gedeelte hiervan of heeft iemand een idee hoe ik mijn woordenschat het beste kan uitbreiden?

i mostly found songs that were instrumentals which isn't a great way to immerse myself in the language

Are there any native italian speakers that are looking for a native dutch language exchange partner?