You can study Dutch for months and still freeze when it's time to talk. Parlita fixes that by making you speak from the first session: real conversations with an AI partner, living stories you act inside, and the words you stumble on woven into spaced repetition so they stick.
What learning Dutch is actually like
Dutch is the closest big language to English there is, close enough that whole sentences occasionally arrive already understood, and reading it becomes easy almost immediately. That familiarity is also the trap, because the word order is not English word order and the verb has a habit of showing up at the end of the sentence where you were not expecting to find it.
The g is the other thing everyone mentions. It is made much further back in the throat than anything English asks for, and there is no route around it other than saying it badly until it stops being bad. Keep an eye on the friendly-looking words too. Brand is a fire and slim means clever.