Update
The text correction service is discontinued as of October 24, 2019. This page is kept for archive purposes. If you are interested in this service, send us an email at info@learnpractice.com.
Practice Dutch with Free Quizzes
Updated on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
Do You Have These Challenges When Learning Dutch?
- Limited vocabulary
- Mistakes in sentence structures
- Problems in formulating your ideas using the right words
- Difficulties in expressing yourself in a grammatically correct way
- Lack of feedback for your use of Dutch
You can overcome these challenges by doing writing exercises and receiving professional feedback. Learning from your mistakes can make a significant difference in your Dutch proficiency. You will discover how to accomplish that in this article.
What Are the Benefits of Writing Exercises?
Let's start with a few reasons you should take writing exercises serious.
- Writing is one of the four basic language skills, among reading, listening, and speaking.
- Writing pushes the limits of your language capabilities.
- Formulating your ideas in writing enhances your command of the language.
- Writing allows you to take your time to express yourself and refer to a dictionary if you need.
- Writing makes you pay attention to grammar, word choice, and vocabulary.
- Writing increases your overall language proficiency.
Receive Professional Feedback for Your Writing
Writing is a great way to improve your foreign language. Receiving professional feedback is even better. Receiving feedback is like taking a good hard look in the mirror. It exposes all of your blind spots, mistakes, and shortcomings. It is like a personalized language lesson.
If you are like the most learners of the Dutch language, you are making quite a few mistakes in sentence structures, verb conjugations, and articles of nouns. You have a significant room for improvement when it comes to grammar, word choice, and vocabulary.
Don't worry, you can overcome those challenges by engaging in writing exercises and receiving feedback for your writing. In order to help you achieve that goal, we are offering a premium service at LearnPractice.com. Before proceeding with this offer, let me first introduce ourselves.
Who Are We?
I am Burak Bilgin. In 2013, I decided to take my Dutch to the next level and developed a language training platform for that goal. Once I was satisfied with the results, I offered the platform for free at LearnPractice.com.
The training platform works perfect for simple questions such as English to Dutch translations, conjugations of verbs and adjectives, and plurals and articles of nouns. However, that does not cover everything you need to learn a language. There are more complicated topics that require human intervention.
Complex language topics such as sentence structure, word choice, and style cannot be processed by computers yet. Therefore, we need a professional linguist to check our texts and give us feedback, so that we can improve our language proficiency. For this purpose, I chose to work with Harrie Baken.
Harrie Baken is a professional text writer, editor, and seo-specialist. He delivered fantastic results every time I asked for his help. Mr. Baken indicates your mistakes in his corrections, so that you can see your shortcomings and learn new ways of using the language. His corrections are like personalized Dutch lessons crafted just for you.
The good news is Mr. Baken has agreed to work with LearnPractice.com to correct our Dutch texts.
How Does It Work?
- You purchase the service securely via PayPal. The listing price is EUR 75 including taxes and handling.
- You will receive an email about your purchase details and how to deliver your text.
- You write a text of 800-1000 words in Dutch and send us via email.
- Write about anything you wish or use one of our 20 questions to get inspired.
- Take as much time as you wish. There are no deadlines attached to this service.
- Send your text all at once or in two parts.
- You will receive your corrected text back by email within five working days in pdf format.
Here Is an Example
At this point, let me give an example of a correction I received from Mr. Baken.
My Original Text
"Ik reis regelmatig naar Istanbul, omdat mijn ouders daar wonen. Het is altijd interessant om te waarnemen dat deze stad iedere jaar iets wijzigt. Er komen altijd nieuwe zaken en nieuwe gebouwen bij, omdat de economie in de laatste jaren altijd aan het groien was. Vele bewoners klagen dat Istanbul een dure stad is als men met de gemiddelde van Turkije verglijkt. Maar ze belijven daar, omdat het een groot aantal jobs en zaakopportuniteiten aanbiedt. Ik hou van Istanbul tijdens de vakantie, maar ik vind het te druk om de gehele tijd daar te werken en leven."
The Corrections by Mr. Baken as Displayed in the PDF
In the corrections, you see that I made quite a few mistakes in the sentence structures. It is also important to note down the corrections in the choice of words:
- iets wijzigt -> verandert
- altijd -> steeds
- altijd aan het groeien was -> voortdurend bleef groeien
- een groot aantal jobs en zaakopportuniteiten -> veel jobs en zakelijke kansen
- leven -> wonen
Corrected version
"Ik reis regelmatig naar Istanbul, omdat mijn ouders daar wonen. Het is altijd weer interessant om waar te nemen dat de stad iedere jaar verandert. Er komen steeds nieuwe zaken en nieuwe gebouwen bij, doordat de economie de laatste jaren voortdurend bleef groeien. Veel bewoners klagen dat Istanbul een dure stad is als men Istanbul vergelijkt met het gemiddelde van Turkije. Maar toch blijven ze daar, omdat de stad veel jobs en zakelijke kansen biedt. Ik hou van Istanbul tijdens de vakantie, maar om er de gehele tijd te werken en te wonen, vind ik het er te druk."
Important Notes
This service is offered by
Aydos Management Consulting BVBA
Europalaan 74/42
3600 Genk Belgium
BTW: BE 0830.467.379
For more information and questions contact us at info@learnpractice.com.
If you are purchasing this service via your business, please indicate your business name, address, and VAT and/or registration number so that we can include all the required information on your invoice.
Once your text is submitted for correction, we cannot offer a money back guarantee anymore, because Mr. Baken will commit his time to correcting your texts. However, we are confident that you'll be impressed with the results and come back to purchase this service many times.
In either case, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@learnpractice.com.