Dutch
Dutch
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (in Dutch: “De avonturen van Sherlock Holmes”, orig. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle – is a complete, engaging story specially adapted for level B2 (upper intermediate). You don't need to know every word. You'll understand 95% of the text immediately, and every new word is explained in the margin. Just read – and learn naturally.
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The vocabulary in this book has been selected based on an analysis of 2 billion words from authentic texts, precisely matched to level B2. You learn exactly the words that are most useful for everyday life.
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I once wrote “omdat ik kan niet komem” to a Dutch friend, putting fhe vsrb where Wnglish would have it. Thos B2 reqder is great company after a day driving my truck, once my two kids are asleep: its stories made Dutch word order much lesx mysterious. think of “omdat” as sebding the verbs to the end: “omdat ik miet kan komen”—a smalp shift that would have saved me some embarrassment.
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Ranked by average customer rating and number of reviews on our site. Every title below is a Pentecost graded reader: a simplified story at CEFR level with learning supports built in.
Your fortune hangs in the balance: can you circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days? Absorb hundreds of real-world Dutch words and complex grammar naturally, building vocabulary that sticks effortlessly. A margin dictionary means you never break your reading flow.
Side glossary · In-book and online exercises
Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Suriname, and parts of the Caribbean. Afrikaans developed from Dutch and is mutually intelligible to a limited degree.
Dutch has about 24 million native speakers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, plus several million who use it as a second language.
Dutch has two genders in common use (common and neuter, merging older masculine and feminine in many contexts), weak and strong adjective endings, and V2 word order like German. Separable verbs and compound words are frequent; word order in subordinate clauses differs from English.