Dear all, I am trying to learn Dutch while living in the Netherlands. I have tried standard courses, and have maded all the way to A2. However, I find standard courses extremely frustrating. I am an engineer by training and I have a very strong sense of language. Most courses follow an inductive approach which does not work for me. By inductive I mean that they throw stuff at you and you are supposed to make sense of it. My brain does not work like this. It would be much more efficient for me to go around the language much more systematically. From general to particular. Using classifications and trees of concepts, rules, and vocabulary. I think this is called deductive learning. I want to understand the etimology of words, such that I can more easily remember new vocabulary. For example: "here are the most important verb variations that you obtained from adding prepositions "af/aan" to common verbs". As opposed to lists of random words that don't allow me to develop a "sense" of the lexical particles in the language, and that make learning vacabulary seem as an endless endeavor. Similarly, I want to cover the grammar explicitly and quickly before practicing it. Not the other way around. Are there any Dutch teachers here that really really have an intuitive sense of the language and can systematically go over it *deductively* and efficiently? I think this language is not so hard. But learning it from examples takes forever! Inductive learning is extremely inefficient for a deductive mind like mine. Thank you for reading. Best regards, Carlos