Even expats who have reached B2 levels of Dutch can still find it tough to start using it in real life. Here's how to break that barrier and get chatting.

“I should have done it 10 years ago,” says Bill Bosler, a 61-year-old American sitting in a room of students wrestling with basic Dutch. This small group is taking an intensive language course at the ...

Twenty years ago, Margreet van 't Haaff had a simple idea: make learning Dutch fun for internationals. Fast-forward to 2025, and Taalthuis has become the language school that can take you from "Ik ...

Wouldn’t it be fun if the research that won the Ig Nobel prize for weird science were all that it seems? The latest award – ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

How many languages are there? Authorities vary on the exact amount, but there's fairly widespread agreement that the answer is somewhere between four and six thousand. Languages die every day, we are ...