Community Language Lab

Work  with "The Speaking Dutchman" to learn good rules of pronunciation, the alphabet, and the often difficult to pronounce vowel combinations. This is a great place to start.

These two sites are some of my favorites, combining strong vocabulary with current Dutch music, news, etc., with subtitling and vocabulary pieces. Check it out - I guarantee you'll get something from it:

Special Dutch

2BDutch

Digital Dialects has loads of animated activities and games that are intended to provide a relaxed way of acquiring basic language skills, and a great break from the books!

Internet Polyglot is an online flashcard system which uses games and drills designed to help you retain vocabulary.  Build your own lessons, steal from other users, or use the ready-made sets.

Use Sylvia Clements' fun Quia Site to work with flashcards designed to build vocabulary, learn verbs, even work on special "golf" terms! You can also use this website to create your own flash cards.

Click on the links below to access the search results for Dutch language resources in the library.

Language Study: Electronic resources, audio courses, language learning texts, Dutch readers and more.

Sound Recordings: Music and language instruction CDs and LPs.

Culture: Academic texts on the Netherlands and Dutch culture.

Free podcast of Dutch language lessons. Here you can learn the language as well as Netherlands' culture and history through five minute lessons designed with real conversation and real situations in mind. Download the audio files to your MP3 player, or listen online.

 

This online Dutch Grammar course starts with the basics, but takes you beyond, with reading lessons, grammar tutorials, and a forum to connect with other Dutch language learners. This site also offers a free podcast and downloadable audio files of real Dutch (not just vocabulary or grammar lessons). Look here, too, for links to other online Dutch resources.

Visit Omniglot for information about the writing system for this language and many others, including designed languages like Klingon. Each page includes the full alphabet or syllabary for a particular language, plus a pronunciation guide in the International Phonetic Alphabet and transliterations of sample text into the Roman alphabet.

Register with Word Champ to create online flash cards for vocabulary study. Browse and copy other users' flash cards, create your own, or use ready-made lists. There are several drill types to choose from, so you can use the same vocabulary over and over in interesting ways to maximize retention.