Dutch listening practice with transcripts
Work through 60 chapter podcasts from the ChickyTutor Dutch course. Each lesson combines complete segmented audio, a visible transcript, authored key phrases, and a speaking challenge.
Published lessons
60
Audio segments
1,164
Course levels
A1–A2–B1
1. Listen without reading
Play the complete sequence once and notice what you understand.
2. Replay with the transcript
Open individual segments and connect the sound to the written form.
3. Say the challenge aloud
Use the chapter prompt, then continue in speaking practice.
Unit 1
Establish the First Exchange
Sustain a short first exchange that locates oneself and familiar people, corrects a false location or state, checks information, asks a basic open question, and recovers after hesitation.
Put Yourself in the Scene
Arrive at a meeting, announce your presence, and confirm that Anna or another familiar person is present too.
Correct the Location
Correct someone who has the wrong location or wrongly assumes that you are ready.
Change Who Is Here
Identify whether the next statement is about you, the person you are speaking to, a familiar man, or a familiar woman.
Check Who Is Present
Check attendance with someone familiar, address an unfamiliar adult politely, and ask whether Anna is present.
Open the Conversation
Call a familiar person, ask where they are, identify who is at the meeting point, and exchange a brief how-are-you greeting.
Run the Arrival Check
Join a meeting, find out who is present, correct one mistaken assumption, and greet another participant.
Unit 2
Keep the Finite Verb in Place
Exchange basic information about where people live, work, and learn, while selecting regular present forms, maintaining verb-first questions and main-clause V2, and negating only the bounded lexical-verb frames taught in the unit.
Build the Ik Form
Give three useful personal facts: where you work, where you live, and what language you are learning.
Address and Ask
Confirm a familiar person's work or residence and then ask them directly when the information is uncertain.
Report One or More People
Say whether one student or several students work here or learn Dutch, and report the same activities for familiar people.
Lead with the Time
Organize a brief update around what happens today, tomorrow, and now.
Deny the Activity
Correct a work schedule and an incorrect claim about your or Anna's place of residence.
Run the Work and Home Exchange
Answer a few practical questions, correct an inaccurate schedule, and report what one student and a group of students do.
Unit 3
Build Useful Noun Phrases
Identify, count, select, describe, and negate a small set of familiar objects while keeping each noun's article class attached to the noun.
Learn the Article with the Noun
Say that you have a book or bicycle, then refer back to the familiar object with its stored article.
Count More Than One
Report that you have two books and identify three tables without carrying singular het into the plural.
Choose the One You Mean
Choose this book rather than that book, or this table rather than that table.
Describe Before the Noun
Distinguish a good book from a good table without treating the adjective ending as a gender label.
Choose Geen or Niet
Say that you have no bicycle or books, then clarify that an available book is not good or that you are not working today.
Retrieve the Right Noun Phrase
Report what you have, identify a particular good book or table, and correct a claim about a missing object.
Unit 4
Open the Verb Bracket
State a wish, ability, obligation, or permission; ask a modal question; and keep a declared separable verb intact at the end of the modal clause.
Say What You Want to Do
Say that you want to buy a book or learn Dutch, placing an expressed object before its infinitive.
Ask What Is Possible
Say that you can speak Dutch, then ask a familiar or formally addressed person whether payment is possible here.
Say What Must Happen
Say that you must work today and understand or give the direct instruction not to smoke here.
Ask and Give Permission
Ask to sit in a place, grant the same permission, and state that smoking is not allowed there.
Keep Separable Infinitives Together
Say that you want to get up early and ask someone to bring this good book along.
Manage a Modal Exchange
Explain what you want and must do, ask whether someone can bring a book, and request permission to sit.
Unit 5
Control the Main-Clause Frame
Describe a short routine and locate a familiar person or object while preserving main-clause V2, a separated verb particle, short object-pronoun placement, and established place chunks.
Split the Action
Tell someone that you get up at seven and that you telephone a familiar man.
Put Time First and Keep the Split
Emphasize when you get up or telephone someone while keeping the action easy to follow.
Replace the Known Object
Say that you need a known object or that you telephone a man or woman already under discussion.
Organize the Middle
Say when and where you telephone someone or need a known thing, using a natural neutral starting order.
Choose a Place Chunk
Say that you are going home, are in the shop, work at the office, or meet someone near the station.
Keep Both Edges Under Pressure
Explain when you get up, whom you telephone, where you work, and where you go afterward.
Unit 6
Handle Everyday Interaction
Complete a short transaction or arrangement by making an appropriately polite request, checking availability and quantity, comparing two options, and confirming the choice using only established language.
Ask for Practical Help
Ask a colleague for help and ask an unfamiliar staff member to repeat something.
Soften the Request
Ask a familiar person tactfully to help you or telephone a known man.
Say What Is Available
Ask whether there is a free table and report that two tables or one problem are present.
State an Everyday Amount
Tell someone how much time or coffee is available and whether there are enough tables.
Compare and Choose
Compare two tables and say that you prefer working at home.
Complete the Arrangement
Ask a staff member about a table, check whether the available option is sufficient, compare it with another option, and state your choice.
Unit 7
Talk About Completed Events
Report a small set of completed everyday actions, selecting hebben or zijn from the established verb set and accurately retrieving stored regular, irregular, separable, and inseparably prefixed no-ge participles.
Close a Completed Action
Tell someone which familiar task you or another person has already completed.
Retrieve the Changed Participle
Answer practical questions about four common completed activities without trying to invent the changed vowel.
Put Ge Inside the Action
Give a compact update about practical actions completed before a meeting or visit.
Leave Ge Out After the Prefix
Report four common completed actions whose participles do not resemble the earlier ge- forms.
Select Zijn for Four Results
Update someone about an arrival, departure, decision to remain, or visible change.
Report What Is Finished
Tell a colleague or friend which preparations are finished, who arrived, and what the group did.
Unit 8
Build a Short Past Account
Give a short, ordered account that establishes a familiar past circumstance with was or had, reports completed events with the established perfect, and explains one past ability, intention, or obligation.
Set the Past Scene
Establish the setting before saying what happened: who was home, whether it was busy, and who had time or an appointment.
Explain What Was Possible
Explain why a familiar plan changed by naming past ability, obligation, or intention.
Locate the Event in Time
Give an accurate progress update about familiar tasks and arrivals.
Order Four Past Moments
Turn four familiar events into a short account that another person can follow.
Frame the Event with Background
Make a short account easier to follow by saying what the situation was before reporting the completed action.
Tell the Short Account
Explain a familiar disrupted plan from its background through the final outcome, then answer one follow-up question.
Unit 9
Connect Clauses Reliably
Connect familiar main clauses, give a reason, report a thought, state a real condition, and relay one indirect question while preserving the practiced Dutch verb position.
Connect Complete Main Clauses
Explain a simple work or travel choice instead of stopping after one sentence.
Close a Simple Omdat Clause
Explain why you work at home or call someone instead of giving an unexplained answer.
Report a Thought or Message
Share a simple belief and pass on one practical message from Anna.
Set a Real Condition
Explain when you will call Anna and what happens if you have time.
Relay a Question Indirectly
Say that you do not know whether Anna is home or where Anna works.
Explain the Whole Decision
Explain a work plan, relay Anna's message, state a condition, and admit one missing detail.
Unit 10
Speak, Clarify, and Repair
Sustain a connected everyday exchange that identifies known people or things, states a personal reaction and opinion, refers back to a known quantity, and repairs meaning or register without abandoning Dutch.
Identify the Person or Thing
Identify the available table, the bicycle you have, the book you need, or the larger house.
Keep Two Reactions Personal
Answer a wellbeing check and correct yourself when you realize that your information is wrong.
Count a Known Set with Er
Say how many books you have or how many tables you need after the item is already clear.
State and Support an Opinion
Choose the better place and give one concrete reason for that choice.
Repair Meaning and Match the Register
Correct a mistaken detail, ask how to say a missing word, and ask either a familiar person or a polite interlocutor to repeat.
Sustain the Everyday Conversation
Work through a practical choice with another speaker, correct one detail, and keep the conversation moving when wording or understanding breaks down.
Turn the phrases into a conversation.
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