Learn Dutch by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Dutch tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

The hardest part of learning Dutch is that everyone switches to English the moment you hesitate. A tutor does not. Verbsy stays in Dutch and waits for you.

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A Dutch conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Dutch

Do your shopping, appointments and small talk in Dutch instead of defaulting to English.
Follow a work meeting in Dutch and say something in it.
Answer the phone in Dutch without rehearsing first.

How learning Dutch with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Dutch — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Dutch questions

Only when you need it. Verbsy stays in Dutch, drops into a language you know if you are properly stuck, and then goes straight back.

Yes. Verb-final clauses and the word-order patterns learners get wrong are corrected as you speak, which is the only place they ever come up.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Dutch as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseRussianMandarin ChineseJapaneseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkishVietnamese

Start speaking Dutch today

Download Verbsy and have your first Dutch conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

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