Five techie tools for getting to grips with Dutch

If learning Dutch was one of your New Year resolutions but you don’t fancy going back to the classroom, help is at hand. The Travis team see the product as part of a global mission ‘to bridge language barriers, spark connection and contribute to positive social change.’ Prices start at around €200. The magic headphones Pixel Buds are Google’s first Bluetooth headphones and, used in combination with the Google Translate app, offer a modern way to navigate Dutch language issues. While the Google Translate app is free of charge, the Pixel Buds will set you back around €135 – and you’ll need a Pixel 2 smartphone to operate them. ‘The ideal learning situation,’ Wyner told DutchNews.nl, ‘is where users are learning their target language while customising their study tools, so that they had a personal hand in creating everything they see repeated on future days.’ The resources created by each learner become available to other users as part of the Fluent Forever’s ‘universal language support’ system.