Nederlands (introductie) app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Boom uitgevers Amsterdam B.V.
First release : 24 Apr 2013
App size: 32.76 Mb
Free version: Try the first three lessons of the Delft method for free
Learn Dutch fast, independently, naturally with the Delft method
What is the Delft method app?
•Dutch course for foreign language speakers
•43 practical lessons about the Netherlands
•Over 2000 Dutch words and word forms
•English instructions
•Clickable translation is 26 languages: English, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Persian (Farsi), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Czech, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese and Swedish
•Exercises with feedback on grammar and simple explanations
•Since thirty years the most effective method to learn Dutch, developed at Delft University
What do you learn?
With thise course you learn to speak, listen, read and write in Dutch. The target level is A2 according to the Common European Framework. This level is sufficient to apply for the Dutch Civic Integration Procedure.
How does it work?
This complete course consists of 43 lessons. In every lesson you go these steps:
•Listen, read, pronounce, understand and learn the text
•Do the listening exercises to train yourself to listen well in Dutch
•Make the exam to test if you know the text well enough
•Make the exercises to test whether you understand what you have learned this lesson
For whom is this method meant?
The Delfth method is meant for foreign language speakers with higher education who wish to learn Dutch to able able to, for example, work or study in the Netherlands. Many tens of thousands of students have successfully and during a short period of time learned the language this way.
How long does it take?
That totally depends on you. Do you do one lesson every day? Then you will speak Dutch within two months. Do you prefer to take it a bit slower? Then do 2 lessons a week and learn Dutch within six months. 1 lesson will take you about an hour and thirty minutes.
Latest reviews of Nederlands (introductie) app for iPhone and iPad
I like this very Much !!!
I suggest this app for studying the "Nederlands voor buitenlanders" book since it works better than the CD (It is very slow and sometimes takes a long time to pronounce some words + the UI is very bad) and can be used everywhere. I have to specify anyway that considering that the same information it contains are available in the book and in the CD, 20€ are not worth it if the quality of the app will not be increased in a soon update. This application looks like an adaptation along time of the original version just to allow it to run on newer devices. It seems clear that the performances have not been enhanced at all since the initial releases. I would suggest to the developer to rewrite the code. Many problems should be solved to make the app acceptable: - the app is too slow both while scrolling, while typing and while checking the correctness of the answers. - The navigation bar on the top disappears and makes it difficult for the user to navigate from one section to the other. For instance if we want to check how a sentence is written in section 1 and we are in section 3 we are forced to scroll all the way up and again all the way down after tapping on section 1. This is already annoying but adding the "slow and lagging scroll" it becomes awful. - the part with the 2 buttons for indicating that is possible to listen and register the voice are completely useless in that tab in the middle of the screen and annoy the user covering part of the text. They could be integrated in the menu bar once it will be kept fixed to the top. I really hope in a future update from the developer but considering how the technological side of the Delftse Methode is implemented (cd, online, app) it will take long time / not happen, unluckily.