Learn at your own pace and build a solid foundation with DutchNow! 9 Deluxe's flexible language-study format. The DVD-box edition includes four titles: The Most Common Words in Dutch, Survival Phrases for Dutch, Vincent Van Gogh, and Amsterdam. Learn more than 10,000 words, build your language skills with interactive grammar exercises and quizzes, cover hundreds of survival phrases, do crosswords in Dutch, play fun games, and much more. DutchNow! also adds GlobalWriter98--an easy-to-use translation program that helps you write in more than 100 languages (Microsoft Windows only). Plus, access to online testing at Transparent Language's Web site extends the learning, making this comprehensive Dutch language course fast, fun, and highly effective.

Learn Dutch Now! 9.0   August 18, 2006

poor quality but still useful   April 12, 2004

On the other hand, I do find it useful, if only because a cd-rom is a better tool for practicing than a cassette tape. You can easily skip around the texts, click on individual words or whole sentences to hear them, see the (not always helpful) translation, etc. - so I would say that in conjunction with a *real* language course (maybe a good book) this could be helpful for extra practice. But ideally I would like to find a good-quality cd-rom language course. Anyone know of one?


WOW   July 2, 2003
  6 out of 14 found this review helpful

I bought this program to learn Dutch because my ancestors were from the Netherlands so I had a general intrest in learing the language. To my surprise this program exceeded my expectations ten fold and has helped me on my way to learning the Dutch Language. Dutch Now teaches all the necessary skills to learning a language - Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing, Vocabulary & Grammar. It does each of these in multiple ways which all seem to be effective. I really appreciated the conversation practices which are available for many different situations making this feature very useful for travel at the least. Technology wise this program makes good use of it with Advanced Speech Analysis and full motion video. Dutch Now most definitely deserves the 5 star rating.


Dutch Teacher   May 30, 2003
  8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Hello I'm a teacher of the Dutch Language on the college level in the USA. Dutch Now is an incredible program. I've been using it to help teach my students and they seem to appreciate the usefulness of it. Dutch Now has significantly improved my students pronunciation and listening skills through the audio features (such as Full Native Speaker Pronunciation). It has expanded their vocabularies through games like Vocabulous and just in general has helped to improve their language skills. Dutch Now has many features that provide for great practice and review. I would highly recomend this program if you wanted to learn or needed help learning Dutch.


Now I can communiate with my colleagues!!   May 14, 2003
  10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I was recently hired to work for a Dutch-owned business. Their English is very good; my Dutch was non-existent. While it wasn't required that I speak Dutch, I often find technical articles in our joint database that look as if they could be useful. I could have them translated by the other employees, but it would be nice to sort through them myself. It would also be polite to be able to say a few words in their native language.

I looked on the internet for Dutch translation/language packages and found very few. Several were much too expensive to be useful. Then I found Transparent Language's Learn Dutch Now! It's a life-saver! The price was was great and it arrived promptly.

Now I am really enjoying the variety of learning methods such as videos, exciting games and intriguing stories. I particularly like the Vocabulous and the Pronunciation Feedback and Analysis feature. Dutch is very difficult to pronounce and this feature really helps with rolling "r"s. I recommend this to everyone.