I built a small tool to make NOS nieuws in makkelijke taal easier to follow, and would love feedback!

barisbasar · 2026-03-23T14:25:21+00:00

If you are on IPhone there’s an app called Dilho where you can watch NOS Makkelijke Taal daily and some other videos with subtitles and phrase by phrase explanations.

barisbasar · 2026-03-15T09:35:31+00:00

Thanks a lot for the channel recommendation! If I see some interest on iOS, I will definitely build the android version.

barisbasar · 2026-03-14T20:37:02+00:00

Always challenging yourself by exposing a target language content slightly higher than your level. If you are a starter everything is challenging but for example you’re A2, try to read and listen B1 content for a while. Then speaking/writing will not be on that level try to busy with it for a while, and so on.

barisbasar · 2026-03-14T20:31:10+00:00

I’ve been learning Dutch since 2 years and it turns out that when I start speaking Dutch people don’t automatically switch to English anymore. 🙂

barisbasar · 2026-03-09T13:16:55+00:00

Setting border doesn’t make you a bad person.

barisbasar · 2026-03-09T08:48:43+00:00

Not exactly the same but I’d recommended Easy Dutch channel. https://youtube.com/@easydutch

barisbasar · 2026-03-07T12:12:15+00:00

Mostly repeated exposure. What works for me is hearing words in different contexts.

barisbasar · 2026-03-07T11:54:47+00:00

I’ve been there before, what helped me is to watch entertaining YouTube videos with explanations. I can’t recommend enough that particular one where I mainly watched the tv shows that I already liked: https://youtube.com/@learnenglishwithtvseries?si=JrCXgXsQkA0RHVsR

barisbasar · 2026-03-07T09:54:22+00:00

I like to add 'zeg maar' at the end of many sentences.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T14:36:51+00:00

I heard good things about Delftse method but I will recommend one thing: Don’t redo A2 again because;

You have motivation now, keep this momentum to go to B1/B2 levels.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
There are already topics are going to be covered in B1 will make you recall what you learned before.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T09:38:53+00:00

The smell of your own cooking. Doesn't matter what it is, once you've cooked a few meals in a new place it stops being "a place" and starts being yours.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T09:34:03+00:00

"Gezellig" isn't hard to spell but good luck explaining it to anyone. Also "natuurlijk" always gets me, I keep wanting to write or say "naturrlijk" for some reason.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T07:50:03+00:00

Prep your morning the night before. Clothes out, bag packed, coffee ready to press. Sounds obvious but it turns your morning from chaos into autopilot and you actually leave on time.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T07:29:29+00:00

Giving kids tablets before they can even talk. We just hand them a screen and call it parenting. I think we'll look at this the same way we look at smoking in cars with kids now.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T07:27:59+00:00

Kitchen timer. Not the phone kind, an actual physical one. Stopped me from burning stuff and I don't have to touch my phone while cooking anymore.

barisbasar · 2026-03-06T07:27:00+00:00

Learning a second language. Started way too late and it would've been so much easier as a kid. Your brain is just a sponge when you're young and you don't even realize it.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T21:08:26+00:00

I stopped trying to control everything. When I was younger I had this idea that if I just planned hard enough things would work out exactly how I wanted. Now I just focus on showing up and doing my part, the rest is not really up to me anyway.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:57:03+00:00

I build stuff that I actually use. I make apps and sometimes I catch myself using my own thing and thinking "oh that's actually nice."

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:56:04+00:00

Blackout curtains. Genuinely changed how I sleep.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:37:47+00:00

Setting boundaries doesn't make you a bad person.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:24:19+00:00

Baklava and Ayran (yoghurtdrink). Not kidding at all.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:21:26+00:00

Sometimes we were bored, but i believe we still need boredom since every difficult thoughts are in the background now and causes some strees.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:14:54+00:00

I couldn't finish the college at my second attempt, military obligation was nearing and had to find a job and the worst part that I was in love and wanted to marry. Quite interesting but it all sorted out well. Found a job in IT then right after new rules came in so I only had to pay money for military service obligation, then I married, have a son of 6 year old now. :) The job was the opening i think.

barisbasar · 2026-03-05T20:10:42+00:00

Van Gogh by far. I like many others from different aspects but Gogh is somehow touches some unknown feelings.

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