Get Started in Dutch Absolute Beginner Course: The essential introduction to reading, writing, speaking and understanding a new language (Teach Yourself)

I find this to be the best way to learn the Dutch language for self-study

and not doing it for me. I understand the idea of concentrating on day to day activities but it's all a bit haphazard and odd. Do Dutch folk really start the day with a supermarket bought cheese sandwich?I couldn't find key conjugated verb tables - have, to be, make etc and there isn't a Dutch equivalent of the most excellent Blue Book of French Verbs.All in all, a meandering, irritating and wallet-emptying disaster.

The book is set out in a confusing way and there is no help to be had from the free audio which doesn't tie in with the text

A very expensive paperback on fairly cheap, low quality paper. The "audio support" is an online download, not a CD, so there is little justification for the price being charged for this.

What is "linkerkant" in English (page 25)? With a bit of imagination and the word list at the end of book, you find that "linker" has something to do with "left". But for "kant" you would need a dictionary (it means "side"). But before you learn your first word of Dutch you get this information in the introduction(!): "You cannot use an object pronoun in combination with a preposition when you refer to a thing." (page XXI).Before writing a "Teach yourself a language" book, one should have tried to learn a foreign language just with a book (and some audio). The authors of this book apparently never did. Being a university lecturer for many years is not enough!If you have some beforehand knowledge of Dutch, know grammatical terms and have a Dutch dictionary, this book might help you. Otherwise it gives you a very hard time. Sad, because there aren't many introductions into this language.

Es un libro que hace fácil el aprendizaje de la lengua con distintas unidades que te enseñan cosas sobre el idioma para usar el dia a dia, va muy bien, y haciéndolo un poco cada dia se aprende fácil.