Een Werkboek

When I studied French at school, we always worked mainly from a workbook that had loads of stuff to do. Most textbooks and phrasebooks you find in most bookshops are just very basic and only allow to emorise stock phrases.

If I want to become a fluent Dutch speaker, I can't just memorise things. I actually need to UNDERSTAND how the language works. I realise that I will have to invest a lot of time and effort into this, but that was the idea from the very beginning!

Whilst looking around the web, I stumbled upon this Dutch workbook on the Book Depository website. As soon as I had a look at the details, I was instantly reminded of that same French workbook we had at school. Without even reading any reviews, I clicked on "add to basket" and ordered it.

£35 is a lot to spend on a book that I know so little about, but if it's as good as the kind you get at school, it should really spead my learning up a lot and help me not just memorise things, but actually allow me to understand how it all fits together. That's what will make the difference between being conversational and being fluent.