About this podcast
Weekly themed newsletter for beginner Dutch learners
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 184 episodes
- De Sleutels in het Zand · 3 min · Episode 184It's a hot summer day at the beach in Scheveningen. Lisa and Tom are enjoying their day off when an older lady, Mevrouw De Groot, approaches them in a panic. She has lost her…
- De Lentefiets van Mevrouw Bakker · 4 min · Episode 183It's the first warm Saturday of spring in Utrecht. Sanne helps her neighbour Mevrouw Bakker get her old bike out of the shed. The bike has been in storage all winter, and not…
- Weekly Digest: Literature (2026-11-01 - 2026-11-08) · 1 min · Episode 1Sunday digest of the past week's themed newsletter (Literature). 3 daily lessons recapped. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- Jouw week in het Nederlands: 1 t/m 8 november · 15 min · Episode 1De 4 verhalen van deze week in één aflevering. Luister en herhaal. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- Rijmen op de Bank · 5 min · Episode 180Lisa and Tom are flatmates in Utrecht. Lisa has just discovered that Tom secretly writes poetry, and she wants to know more about it. What starts as a joke about his love poems…
- De Boekenclub van de Boslaan · 3 min · Episode 179Lisa has just moved to a new neighbourhood in Utrecht and is excited to join her first book club meeting at the local library. She's a bit nervous, but her neighbour Karin has…
- Wie Schrijft er Nou Nog? · 3 min · Episode 178Mark is a British expat living in Utrecht. His neighbour Joke, a friendly Dutch woman in her sixties, discovers he has never read a Dutch book. She decides to change that…
- Weekly Digest: Advanced Small Talk (2026-10-25 - 2026-11-01) · 1 min · Episode 1Sunday digest of the past week's themed newsletter (Advanced Small Talk). 3 daily lessons recapped. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- De Buurtkletstantes van de Boslaan · 3 min · Episode 176In this episode, you'll meet Daan and Youssef, two neighbours who bump into each other while putting out the rubbish. What starts as a friendly chat quickly turns into gossip…
- Kletsen over het K*tweer · 2 min · Episode 175It's a typical grey Monday morning at a Dutch train station. Two colleagues, Mark and Lisa, are waiting for their train to work and fall into a very common Dutch ritual…
- Wat vind jij van de politiek? · 4 min · Episode 174Mark and Lisa are colleagues on a lunch break at a café in Utrecht. Lisa sees a news item on her phone about the upcoming elections and asks Mark what he thinks. It is a simple…
- Weekly Digest: Humor & Sarcasm (2026-10-18 - 2026-10-25) · 1 min · Episode 1Sunday digest of the past week's themed newsletter (Humor & Sarcasm). 5 daily lessons recapped. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- Jouw week in het Nederlands: 18 t/m 25 oktober · 14 min · Episode 1De 6 verhalen van deze week in één aflevering. Luister en herhaal. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- Ik Ben Zeker Niet Handig · 4 min · Episode 171Mark has just tried to build a bookshelf at home. His girlfriend Sara comes home and finds him sitting on the floor. Mark laughs at himself and tells her exactly how it went…
- De Appel Valt Niet Ver van de Boom · 5 min · Episode 170Lisa is visiting her uncle Bert and her cousin Tom for coffee on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Bert loves telling jokes, but his jokes are famously terrible. Today he has a new one…
- De Kat van de Buurvrouw · 4 min · Episode 169Lisa and Tom are neighbours in a typical Dutch street. Tom's cat is missing, and Lisa tries to help him find it. But Tom has a strange sense of humour, and Lisa isn't sure if…
- De Kaas Is Niet Grappig · 3 min · Episode 168Mark is helping his friend Lisa move into a new apartment in Utrecht. They are carrying boxes up the stairs and Mark's dry sense of humour keeps things interesting. Lisa is not…
- De Droogste Grappen van de Straat · 2 min · Episode 167Mark and Lisa are neighbors in a typical Dutch street. Mark is trying to fix his bike while Lisa watches with her typical dry sense of humor. Their conversation shows how Dutch…
- Weekly Digest: Volunteering (2026-10-11 - 2026-10-18) · 1 min · Episode 1Sunday digest of the past week's themed newsletter (Volunteering). 4 daily lessons recapped. Transcript, vertaling en quiz van deze aflevering…
- De Vrijwilligers van het Zomerfeest · 3 min · Episode 165Lisa has just signed up as a volunteer for the neighborhood summer festival in Utrecht. She meets the coordinator, Mark, for the first time at the community center. Together they…
