Dutch Boom uitgevers Amsterdam Herziene editie (2026)

Practise Nederlands in gang on-the-go.

Short audio courses for each chapter that you can do on the go.

How it works.

Step 1

Pick the chapter your class is on.

  • — 7 short lessons per chapter
  • — Set around the chapter's topics
  • — Built on grammar your class has already met
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Nederlands in gang 3: A round at the café

Elif has just passed her driving test and buys a round at a café in Haarlem. Order drinks, congratulate someone and pay at the bar.

Lesson 1

Ordering drinks at the bar

Objectives

  • Order drinks for your table
  • Say how many you want
  • Say thank you at the bar

Vocabulary

Wat mag het zijn?een biertjeeen witte wijngraagGefeliciteerd!

Lesson 2

Sharing good news

Lesson 3

Saying which try it was

Lesson 4

Treating everyone to a round

Lesson 5

Saying how you know someone

Step 2

Do one lesson a day that week.

  • — No new app to download
  • — Each lesson arrives in WhatsApp
  • — 10 minutes each, whenever it suits you

Morning

Ready for your lesson?

Lesson 1 of 7

Ordering drinks at the bar

Course: Nederlands in gang 3: A round at the café

Step 3

Listen, practise, then try it yourself.

  • — Hear the chapter's topics in a real conversation
  • — Practise the key phrases aloud
  • — Call HearSay and try it yourself

Step 4

Ask about anything from class.

  • — Questions about the chapter's grammar
  • — Answers in the same WhatsApp chat
  • — Start the next course when your class moves on

Why is it 'het bier' but 'de wijn'?

Most nouns take 'de'. A smaller group takes 'het', and you learn those one by one, like het bier and het water ✅

Can I practise that a bit more?

Practising de and het

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Frequently asked questions.

No. HearSay is not affiliated with or endorsed by Boom uitgevers Amsterdam, and Nederlands in gang is a trademark of its owner. We write our own conversations and characters around each chapter's themes, and nothing is copied from the book.

No. Each course works without the book, with its own conversations and audio. If your class uses the book, the course for the chapter you're on goes alongside it.

Start with the chapter your class is on. If you're learning without a class, start with chapter 1. Each course uses the grammar from its chapter and the ones before it, apart from a few set phrases, so the courses work best in order.

HearSay sends you personalised audio language lessons as voice messages on WhatsApp. Each lesson is a real conversation between native speakers, built around a topic you choose and matched to your level.

You listen and speak along while walking, driving, or cooking. An AI tutor in the same chat answers your questions, explains grammar, and creates new lessons whenever you ask.

No. HearSay runs entirely inside WhatsApp, so there's nothing to install and no new app to remember. If your phone has WhatsApp, you're ready: your first lesson arrives in your chat a few minutes after you sign up.

HearSay uses the audio-lingual method: you learn by hearing real dialogues, speaking along, and actively recalling phrases, with spaced repetition bringing them back just as you're about to forget.

A good rule of thumb: once you get around 80% of a lesson's phrases right, you're ready to move on. Plenty of learners repeat a lesson a few times first, and that's completely fine.

Yes. You speak out loud in every lesson, repeating and recalling phrases before you hear the answer. You're never recorded during lessons, so you can practise comfortably even in public.

At the end of a lesson you can join an optional role-play call to act out the conversation with your AI tutor. Those calls are recorded, and personalised feedback on your speaking is coming soon.

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