Ten quick questions with native audio to estimate your CEFR level — no sign-up to try. Takes about two minutes.
What does this Dutch word mean?
HAH-loh
The audio carries the Dutch g — the sound almost every learner recognises on paper and misses by ear. Several questions turn on hearing a word rather than reading it.
The CEFR bands are the same everywhere. What sits inside them is not — A2 in Dutch asks for things A2 in another language never mentions. Here is what your result actually describes.
Greetings, numbers, hebben and zijn, and word order that is nearly English right up until it is not. De and het are memorised one noun at a time, with no rule to lean on.
The perfect tense with the participle parked at the end works, separable verbs behave, and "er" has begun appearing in your sentences roughly where it belongs.
Subordinate word order is automatic, diminutives in -je and -tje come naturally, and you can hold a conversation with someone who has not switched to English out of politeness.
Dutch learners under-test their real level, because the Netherlands answers you in English. Recognition keeps climbing while production never gets exercised at all.
Worth remembering either way: a multiple-choice test measures recognition. Speaking is a different muscle, and it is the one that decides whether a conversation happens.
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