Nederlands leren · for English speakers
Upload what your course hands you — textbook pages, slides, worksheet scans, class recordings. Confident Dutch reads it, saves every word with its article, plural and past forms, speaks it in a natural Dutch voice, and schedules your reviews. You bring the lessons; it does the busywork.
girl · noun
This is the app’s article card — answer it. Nouns are spoken with their article.
Why Dutch is hard for English speakers
Dutch looks close to English, then leans on details English doesn’t have. Confident Dutch catches each of them — on your cards, in your writing, in your voice — so they get practised instead of forgotten.
de tafel, het huis — and nothing in the word tells you. The choice decides the adjective too: een groot huis, but het grote huis.
Every noun is saved with its article, and gets a card that asks de or het?
Second in a main clause — morgen ga ik — last after omdat and dat, and the op of opbellen jumps to the very end: ik bel je morgen op.
Record & Correct catches word order in your own sentences — the verb, its prefix, niet — and names the rule that moved it.
You write ik word but hij wordt, and they sound the same. Yet man and maan, zon and zoon are different words — and ui, eu and the g have no English match.
Record & Correct flags a d/t ending as spelling, and Echo names the vowel when maan was heard as man.
How it works
Confident Dutch reads every page and recording and builds the study set — and nothing enters your lexicon until you have confirmed it.
Textbook pages, class slides, worksheet scans, photos of your notes, recordings of the lesson. No retyping.
Every word arrives with its article, plural and past forms, ready to keep, edit or reject. Audio is made for everything you keep.
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Spaced repetition (FSRS) brings each card back just before you would forget it — so a session stays short.
Word forms
Your textbook prints het huis, de huizen. Most flashcard apps keep “house”. Confident Dutch keeps what Dutch makes you learn: the article, the plural and the diminutive, a verb’s past forms with hebben or zijn, separable prefixes, zich — and the preposition a verb takes, as in wachten op.
Record & Correct
Type a paragraph or record a voice note in Dutch. Every sentence comes back corrected and labelled with what went wrong — de or het, the word order, a d/t ending, an English phrase in Dutch words — in one plain sentence that names the grammar point you studied.
We hebben een mooie mooi appartement in Utrecht.
de/hetIt’s het appartement, so after een the adjective has no ‑e: een mooi appartement.
In de winter ben heb ik het altijd koud in huis.
wordingFeeling cold is het koud hebben: ik heb het koud. Ik ben koud is the English pattern in Dutch words.
Elke ochtend ik fiets ik naar kantoor.
word orderThe verb comes second: after elke ochtend, fiets goes before ik.
Mijn dochter vind vindt haar nieuwe school leuk.
spellingAfter hij or zij — here mijn dochter — the verb is stem + t: vindt. You can’t hear the t, but you write it.
Echo
Echo plays a sentence from your lessons in a natural Dutch voice. You say it back; the transcriber writes down what it heard, and Echo compares it word by word. Spellings that sound the same count as right. A real slip gets named — long aa or short a, ui or ou, eu or uu — and your intonation is drawn over the voice’s.
De zon schijnt en het wordt warm.
One word came through as a different word: zon heard as zoon (long oo vs short o).
Reading
Paste an article, an email from your landlord, a letter from the gemeente — or photograph a page. Words that aren’t in your lexicon yet are marked. Tap one for its dictionary form — de week for weken, opbellen for bel … op — and add it with the sentence you found it in.
Sinds drie weken woon ik in een klein appartement aan de gracht. In het weekend bel ik mijn moeder op. Ik mis haar een beetje.
weken → de week
Features
Built for the way a course actually runs: new material every week, a test on Friday, and ten spare minutes on the train.
Course books like Nederlands in gang, Contact! and Taal vitaal, your language school’s handouts, slides and class recordings — not a generic word list.
Every word and sentence is spoken in a natural-sounding voice from the Netherlands — Fenna, Colette or Maarten — and nouns are spoken with their article.
An FSRS schedule shows each card just before you would forget it, and quietly surfaces the words you keep missing.
Go over everything one lesson covered, as often as you like — without disturbing your review schedule.
Type huizen, liep or belt op and it comes back in dictionary form, with its article and forms, ready to keep.
Grammar points are taken from your course book, named as the book names them — and corrections point back to them.
Generate an illustration for a word and it becomes a visual anchor on the card, so recall comes faster.
It runs in the browser and installs to your home screen: upload on the laptop, review on the tram.
Your material lives in its own database, is never used to train AI, and can be exported or deleted from Settings at any time.
Included
Five starter decks for your first weeks in the Netherlands, and four grammar guides — every example with audio.
Starter decks · 5 decks, 156 words
Grammar guides · every example playable
Pricing
Every upload is read by an AI model and every word is voiced by a speech model — both cost real money on every run, so there is no free tier to subsidise. One subscription, cancel any time.
Confident Dutch
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FAQ
Textbook pages and worksheet scans (photos or PDFs), class slides, photos of your notes, and audio recordings of your lessons. Confident Dutch reads the text off the page, transcribes recordings, and keeps your book’s own chapter and section headings.
Any: it reads the page, not a list of known books. It is tuned for the way Dutch course books lay things out — Nederlands in gang, Contact!, Taal vitaal, Code Nederlands, the Delftse methode — and for the handouts of a language school or university course.
Yes. Start with the starter decks and grammar guides, paste articles into the Reading door, and write or record a few sentences a day in Record & Correct. Anything you find along the way can go straight into your lexicon.
Standard Dutch as it is spoken in the Netherlands. The voices are from the Netherlands and corrections follow the official spelling of the Woordenlijst. Flemish — Dutch as it is spoken in Belgium — is not covered.
No. The AI pulls words, sentences and grammar out of your material, with articles and forms; you keep, edit or reject each one in a review queue. To add a single word, type it and it is looked up for you.
Good, and not perfect — which is why nothing reaches your lexicon until you have confirmed it, and a reading the AI isn’t sure of is flagged for you to check. Treat corrections and translations as a study aid, not a reference work.
From Microsoft’s neural text-to-speech voices for Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands — the same voice for every word, so you learn one consistent accent. Nouns are spoken with their article.
Not specifically, yet. It trains the vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, writing and speaking those exams test, from your own course — but there are no mock exams in it today, and nothing for the inburgering exam’s knowledge-of-society part (KNM).
Yes. Each account has its own database, your uploads are never shown to anyone else or used to train AI models, and you can export or delete everything from Settings.
Cancel any time from your account. Ask within 14 days of your first payment and we refund it in full.
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