Learn · Recall · Review

How DutchMouth Practice Works

Learn a form, retrieve it from memory, and revisit it after a delay. Use this practice alongside lessons and real conversation.

Learn before you recall

New verbs show their meaning, an example and the forms you will practise. Read them aloud, then hide them. Most prompts ask you to type a Dutch form; auxiliary prompts ask you to choose the appropriate helper for the sentence.

Use mistakes to guide practice

After an incorrect answer or reveal, inspect the correction and try again. The form appears once more later in the session. Those retries are practice, even when you get them right.

Check memory after a delay

A correct answer can add delayed evidence only after at least 24 hours since the previous exposure. Repeated answers today do not prove lasting recall. A wrong answer removes current mastery and schedules a check tomorrow.

Advance without skipping the work

Each field needs separated correct evidence before it is marked mastered. Only an eligible due assessment can advance the shared verb schedule, once per assessment day. Applicable fields vary: some verbs do not have the perfect-tense forms used by the standard exercise.

Begin with everyday verbs

New curricula start with 28 everyday verbs. The wider library contains 2,000 entries for later practice and reference. Existing learners keep their saved curriculum order.

Keep the daily workload manageable

Choose two, three or six new verbs per day. Reviews come first, with up to four verbs in a review batch. A large backlog reduces the new-verb allowance. Finishing today’s allocation does not create another allocation. Study days currently use UTC.

Resume where you stopped

Pause a study session and return to the same saved tasks. Completing a session records the answers you actually submitted. It does not itself prove that you have mastered every form.

Bring the practice into conversation

For a destination, say “Ik ben naar huis gelopen.” For an activity, say “Ik heb een uur gelopen.” Context can change the helper. Practise your own sentences with a teacher or conversation partner; typed recall alone does not certify fluency or a CEFR level.

Try the method for yourself.

Three verbs and six answers, with teaching and feedback.

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