Drops: Learn Dutch

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About this app

What if 🇳🇱 Dutch vocabulary learning would be a crazy fun game instead of boring memorisation drills? Drops makes language learning an effortless fun. Practical vocabulary is bound to your memories through beautiful graphics and quick mini-games.
The crazy part? You have only 5 mins per day. Might sound insane but works like charm! :)
These are the ingredients of the secret sauce:
👀 100% illustrated: Pictures directly carry the meaning - you don’t have to use your native language at all! No intermediary. Faster, more effective and of course more fun!
🏎 5 min sessions: limiting practice time sounds crazy but it it makes it incredibly addictive - which is cool thing for learning. The barrier of entry is close to zero so you can’t have any excuses: you’ll have 5 minutes even on the busiest day!
🕹 Effortless play: We know why games are fun and addictive and distilled the essence into Drops. The result is a truly immersive experience but it’s not waste of your time while you play because you build a valuable knowledge.
⚡Qucik: Keyboard typing is painfully slow. Welcome rapid swipes and taps! Trust us, you’ll need those extra seconds during the quick learning session ;)
🎯 Vocabulary only: Zero grammar, just handpicked practical words. That’s our focus and we do it extremely well. The app teaches the Korean “alphabet” Hangul (hangoul) too!
💁Forge a habit: Drops wants to make you language learning addict. Effectiveness is nothing without a well established habit. We help you build one!
We are extremely proud of our lovely word pronunciations by seasoned voice talents!
Drops is free for casual learners: more than 1700 words in 99 topics are all available for everyone. Hardcore language learners can subscribe for premium to progress faster with unlimited learning time. Subscriptions start from $2.99 / month.

🌍 Our goal is to empower people of the world via language knowledge by providing a special tool that utilizes the universal language we all speak: pictures.


p.s.: be careful, this app really can get you addicted to to language learning.

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😍 If you love Drops as much as we enjoyed building it, please leave us a review! :)

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Ratings and reviews

I love this app! It helps me learn dutch words easily. One thing I wish it incorporated more is the word itself, and more on how to spell it. Also, I can match the Dutch word with the pictures all day, and it is helpful, but what would really help is having a part where you match the Dutch word not with the picture but with the word in English. I'm not saying get rid of the stuff you have right now, but it would be nice to add more onto it. :)

Amazing way to gradually increase my vocabulary. Beginner friendly, but doesn't sacrifice breadth so it'll be useful for a long time. Plan on getting your grammar elsewhere, but the way this app has expanded my vocabulary has made learning from other sources much quicker. I love that it makes you practice de vs het nouns automatically. Volume is a little inconsistent both between languages and between nouns and verbs in the Dutch version.

This is quite possibly the only app that has successfully gamified language learning. There's no typing, which in other apps makes you feel like you're taking a test rather than playing a game. Instead, everything is movement. You're either dragging pictures to their corresponding target words (and vice versa), dragging letters to blanks in a hangman-style game, or swiping through letters in a word-search game. The best feature that makes Drops effective is the emphasis on images rather than your native language to translate the words, much like you learned your first language as a child (if an image is ambiguous, you can tap it to display the word in your native language). Cons? Not much, other than it doesn't really teach grammar, but I don't think the app was intended for that. It's meant for expanding your vocabulary as a compliment to other apps & courses. I'm currently using Duolingo for grammar and Drops for vocab. Another potential con is that the prices are a bit steep; however, I was offered a discount on the lifetime subscription for $32. If you're offered a similar deal, take it. It's worth it.

What's new

This update has squashed some bugs to make learning easier. Have fun learning languages!