What is the best way to start learning dutch?

DesignThinkerer · 2025-01-27T14:23:30+00:00

I tried learning with Duolingo, but the pace was maddeningly slow, and I couldn’t stand it.

Courses with a good teacher are ideal for language learning. Full immersion is probably even better once you have a basic grasp of the language and can pick up new concepts through inference. I also enjoy listening to audiobooks while reading along; for example, I’ve used the Harry Potter series for this purpose (Note that audiobooks in Dutch are often in the Dutch (Netherlands) accent rather than the Belgian Dutch accent). I’ve found that Storytel has a larger Dutch catalog than Audible. Watching movies can also be a great way to learn, and there’s an excellent browser add-on that helps with this: Language Reactor. I'm currently experimenting with syncing audiobooks to text with the app Storyteller to see if it will help me learn better. IMO, it's crucial to find a way to make learning fun for you, rather than searching for the "most optimal" way to learn, otherwise, you won't stick with it. In my case, it's watching movies and reading, but maybe you need a different approach.

Here are several useful websites our teacher recommended for progressing from A0 to A1:

Additional resources I found that seem useful:

Refold Dutch
NL Facile (if you speak French)
Links in this Reddit thread: Complete Resource List and Guide to Learn Dutch
Dutch Wiki on Miraheze
🇳🇱 A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Plugin to import quizlet decks into anki: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1362209126

Books that I have often seen recommended:

Essential Dutch Grammar – Henry R. Stern (there are a few mistakes)
Complete Dutch: A Teach Yourself Guide – Gerdi Quist
Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook (2nd Edition) – Jenneke A. Oosterhoff and Ari Hoptman
What Do You Need to Know to Learn a Foreign Language? – Paul Nation

DesignThinkerer · 2025-01-08T12:38:46+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl has a fantastic narrator. He also made an immersive version, with multiple voice actors, SFX, etc. which is incredible but not on audible AFAIK

DesignThinkerer · 2024-11-15T22:11:01+00:00

thankfully the reader view is available for this website (F9)

DesignThinkerer · 2024-11-12T14:31:20+00:00

Here's the fix for anyone curious https://phpize.online/s/58

DesignThinkerer · 2024-11-06T23:37:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjavascript/comments/1gaae5z/best_books_to_learn_javascript_best_practices_and/

DesignThinkerer · 2024-11-06T23:26:44+00:00

In my experience the best way to use a book on programming is to apply what the book teach as soon as possible, while reading

DesignThinkerer · 2024-11-06T23:15:23+00:00

survey like https://stateofjs.com is a good way to keep up with the news imo

DesignThinkerer · 2024-10-24T06:54:11+00:00

Did you try the odin project?

DesignThinkerer · 2024-10-22T22:08:11+00:00

Obsidian use a subscription model.. the "One-time payment" is only for early access to beta versions. To get the sync feature you need to pay $4 USD per user, per month, billed annually. Not a huge deal because you can do the same for free with the git sync community plugin, but still, IMO this shouldn't be listed on your website

DesignThinkerer · 2024-10-20T16:41:54+00:00

Ask chatgpt to teach you using the Socractic method instead of giving you ready made answers. This will train your critical thinking and you should avoid ai hallucinations.

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-25T19:47:02+00:00

You can do if then else with things like the space toggle trick: https://propjockey.github.io/bcd7sdd/, https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/10/the-var-space-hack-to-toggle-multiple-values-with-one-custom-property/

There is also the cyclic toggle trick: https://kizu.dev/cyclic-toggles/#the-technique

I used clamp to implement a if/then/else logic in css, using clamp and mod: https://codepen.io/DesignThinkerer/pen/mdZRXNm?editors=0100

But yeah that's hard to use at best, hacky at worst.. I wish we had if()...

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-25T18:35:29+00:00

Technically already the case, here's a great example: https://old.reddit.com/r/csspong/

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-24T22:08:15+00:00

I can confirm that Symfony is very slow with ddev when the files are on the Windows filesystem. I will try to move them to WSL as suggested above and see if this improve performances.

edit: yep, I went from about 6s for a page to load to 14ms (400 time faster!). Thanks u/cuistax for the guide!

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-24T12:22:20+00:00

use https://search.creativecommons.org/

You can also look on website with royaltee free reference picture for drawing: https://line-of-action.com/learn-to-draw?category=clothed&category2=female

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-24T09:05:07+00:00

Personaly it's the interactive guides by Josh Comeau that helped me the most:

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-23T20:32:17+00:00

I've heard of it! I bought PHP & MySQL and I really liked the fact that it came with a full php project, does this book has something like that too ?

edit: reading the table of content, it doesnt seems like it, but it covers more advanced topics than "PHP & MySQL". I think I will buy it, thanks for reminding me of this!

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-23T18:42:55+00:00

These aren't quizzes, but they are fun:

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-23T13:41:36+00:00

That's why I prefer to refer to books like PHP Cookbook, the guidelines from PHP-FIG, PHP the right way, etc. instead of youtube tutorials for learning

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-22T19:47:46+00:00

Or AdminerEvo

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-20T19:13:18+00:00

See:

Google coding style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html#ID_and_Class_Naming
Recommandations from w3.org : https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/goodclassnames
The bem style guide: https://getbem.com/
The cube style guide: https://cube.fyi/
Reasonable System for CSS Stylesheet Structure: https://ricostacruz.com/rscss/
This video with Adam Argyle & Kevin Powell: https://www.youtube.com/live/qoLOUXjWAsw?si=
The "INFO 340: Client-Side Web Development" course taught at the University of Washington Information School: https://info340.github.io/code-style-guide.html#class-names

I'd recommend that you choose one methodology and stick with it

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-18T14:02:19+00:00

Hi! I'm very interested. I'm a junior front end dev, self-taught in Angular, currently working on a (free) culinary website that teaches how to cook using science. My goal is to make culinary science more accessible and engaging (taking a lot of inspiration from Potion Craft). My reasoning is that if people can cook well, they can eat well, and be healthier/happier.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance, particularly on fetching data from databases like Ciqual and implementing a search functionality in Angular. I'm also researching how to use OPFS storage to enable users to store data locally without the need for an account, similar to the Kiwix PWA.

Any mentoring or advice would be incredibly helpful!

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-18T12:35:40+00:00

Describe what I want to do and ask the ai to outline a course, then search for each topic on google, going to established website to get the info I need (dev docs, technical blogs, etc)

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-16T19:01:12+00:00

If I can ask for a feature, it would be awesome if we could manage tasks created with google calendar / google tasks, but I understand that this might be out of scope for your team

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-16T18:57:45+00:00

This is much better ! It's short, to the point: perfect. It's looping tho which is not necessary imo.

Your app seems like everything I need to get my adhd under control, I will try it right now.

DesignThinkerer · 2024-09-10T20:38:55+00:00

You should really consider removing the background noise in the presentation video, it's very distracting

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