Aug 27, 2021Picking back upHow to get started again when you’ve given up on Dutch Last year was challenging in many aspects, but for language learning it was the...
May 12, 2021Learning by doingWhen you start a course with Rubio Dutch, we tell you to engage, take risks, interact, ask, absorb, make mistakes and to be creative with...
Mar 23, 2021Do you need to have a special talent for languages?Most of our new students say something about themselves like: “I am quite good/bad at languages”...
Jan 3, 2021Why do Dutch people switch to English all the time?It can be sooo frustrating. You try to have a conversation in Dutch, you gather all your courage, and then... they respond in English....
Dec 23, 2020Grammartime!"I am so slow when I speak!! For every word, I need to stop and think. Do I need to conjugate this? Where does this go? Is this the right...
Dec 23, 2020Watch tv in Dutch - lockdown holidaysHi there! This week, our Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that our Christmas is going to be at home. I know. We all saw it coming,...
Oct 6, 2020Making Dutch Practice a Piece of CakeA smart way to learn as you go along your daily life, is to incorporate your language learning moments into already existing routines.
Feb 24, 2020Using Music to Learn DutchWhy? My daughters have sung along with everything they hear on the radio, old-fashioned cd’s, Spotify or, more recently, Tiktok, for as...
Jan 20, 2020Finding AlliesAfraid to speak…? Language was created to communicate. Learning a new language is mostly a process of trial-and-error. Even people who...