Learning grammar makes no sense! Choose an effective method and learn formulaic sequences
Why do children learn foreign languages with such ease, while many adults have great difficulty doing so? The answer may surprise you as much as it surprised me. It’s no…
Desirable difficulties: Why does learning a language have to be difficult?
When was the last time you felt that something came to you with such great difficulty, you almost had to force yourself to do it? And then, after much struggle,…
Factors that affect language learning time. How to use them to your advantage
Learning a foreign language is a challenging task because human languages are complex systems with thousands of words. For example, the English language contains about 170,000 words, of which native…
What are mnemonics? And how to use mental techniques to learn a language.
Mnemonics is a type of mental technique that aids organization and memorization and facilitates the acquisition of more information. In the context of language learning, mnemonics can speed up the…
Factors affecting the memorization process during language learning
A good memory is a component of many factors. Unfortunately, human memory does not always work optimally. There are indeed many factors that can affect memory, which can reduce your…
Types and functions of memory. How to use memory to learn languages
You have probably experienced a situation where someone asked you something, and you totally couldn’t remember what it was about. Or you wanted to say something in English, and the…
Regular verbs in Dutch and their conjugation in all tenses. Tables and lots of examples.
Regular verbs are the majority of the verbs in Dutch. The follow conjugation patterns and rules. To conjugate them, we first have to find the stem in the verb and…
How to conjugate irregular verbs in Dutch. Theory, tables and lots of examples.
Irregularity in verbs was originally the norm. This means that verb forms were ‘regular’ when they were irregular. This is how languages evolved – largely through random processes, acting in…