Recommended books for learning Dutch

Suitable for both beginners and more advanced learners, we've put a great deal of effort into selecting the following books, which we highly recommend to everybody learning Dutch. The books include introductions to basic Dutch and Dutch grammar, grammar workbooks, phrasebooks, as well as a dictionary.

These books have been thoroughly reviewed, and were selected for both their quality and value — we provided a number of these books to over 25 learners of Dutch to gather their feedback, which we took into account during our selection. We also asked a handful of online Dutch-learning communities for their recommendations, which quickly revealed a surprisingly small number of books that learners had found invaluable as they learnt.

In total, we reviewed 32 books and ended with a selection of 8. From this 8, we developed a “Top 3” which you can find at the end of this page.

Without further ado, these are the eight books you should think about picking up if you're serious about learning Dutch!