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LEARN DUTCH THE NATURAL WAY
Erla is a Dutch learning app built on comprehension: you learn Dutch by listening, reading and talking in real situations, not by memorizing word lists. Everything is built on context — short stories, everyday scenes and conversations with an AI tutor — so you start thinking in Dutch instead of translating in your head.
Eight ways to practice. Five to ten minutes a day.
LISTEN
Dutch listening practice with short everyday scenes read by a native voice. The text stays hidden while you listen, then you reveal it and check what you understood. Slow the audio down, tap any sentence for a translation, and train your ear on Dutch as it is actually spoken — quick, run together, nothing like the textbook.
READ
Dutch short stories you will want to finish, with narration that highlights each sentence as it is read. Tap any sentence for a translation and an explanation, and read a little further every day.
WATCH
Short videos, first without subtitles, then with subtitles you can tap. Miss a word? Tap it and keep watching.
CHAT
Dutch conversation practice in writing with an AI tutor, on any topic, at your own pace. Stuck for words? Ask for a hint. Every lesson ends with a report on what went well and the mistakes to work on.
TALK
Speak Dutch out loud with an AI tutor in real time. It listens, corrects you gently, and waits as long as you need. Make your mistakes here, not at the doctor's.
GRAMMAR
A Dutch grammar course from A1 to B2: seventy rules, from de and het to the word order nobody can explain to you, taught in plain language with real examples. Separable verbs, er, the perfect tense, what happens to the verb after omdat, the diminutive, the little words like even and toch that make you sound Dutch — the things every learner trips on, taught the way a good teacher would. Then build sentences by tapping words into place until the rule stops being something you recite and becomes something you use.
PLAY
Ten word and listening games built from the Dutch vocabulary you are actually learning — numbered puzzles you play at your own pace, six of them in silence.
WORDS
Tap any word anywhere in the app to save it. It comes back in spaced practice until you own it, with the sentence you first met it in — Dutch phrases stick because you learned them in context.
DUTCH FOR BEGINNERS AND BEYOND
Choose beginner, intermediate or advanced and change your mind whenever you like. Lessons adapt to how you rate them, so a complete beginner and someone brushing up before a move to Amsterdam both get Dutch lessons at the right level.
BUILT AROUND YOUR WEEK
Set a weekly plan you can keep, with rest days that never break your streak. Watch your Understanding Score grow with every lesson, and earn badges as you go. Short sessions, fast feedback: you always know what you understood.
LEARN IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Translations and explanations in 35 languages, so a new Dutch word is explained in a language you already understand. The grammar lessons come in 30 of them.
ONE CLEAR VOICE
Standard Dutch throughout, spoken at a natural pace, with a slow-down control for when it gets away from you. The everyday Dutch of the news, the office and the checkout queue — not a textbook register.
WHY IT WORKS
- Understand Dutch speakers sooner, because you hear them from day one
- Vocabulary that lasts, because you meet it in context
- Confidence to speak Dutch, because you practice speaking
- Learn Dutch in 5 to 10 minutes a day — it is genuinely enough