Dat liep anders | A2+ Dutch Stories + Grammar

Follow the story, even when the plan changes.

Missed connections, changing plans and unexpected endings: twelve original Dutch stories for adult readers around A2+ who are ready for longer narratives.

Read it. Understand it. Practise it.

After each story, Taal in het verhaal highlights useful language from the text. Read the short explanation, compare natural examples, try three exercises and check your answers. The focus is on the tricky parts of Dutch at your level.

Inside this ebook

- 12 complete stories in natural Dutch.

- 12 focused grammar lessons linked directly to the stories.

- 36 highlighted examples and 36 grammar exercises.

- 24 reading questions and answers to all reading and grammar exercises.

- 60 contextual Dutch-English vocabulary notes.

- One 51-page downloadable PDF with clickable contents.

Dutch you will explore

- Past tenses and the language that shows what happened first.

- Toen, voordat, separable verbs and word order after a time or place.

- Er, questions inside sentences, fixed prepositions, and extra information with die, dat and wat.

What you will practise

Practise following a sequence of events, understanding longer sentences and recognising the patterns used to tell a story in Dutch.

Read at your own pace. Stories, examples and exercises are in Dutch; grammar explanations and vocabulary support are in English. This is a digital PDF ebook.