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DutchPod101.com
Is a language podcast and accompanying website that offers lessons in Dutch. The service was founded in 2011 and is a spin of serie of Japanesepod101.

Overview
Dutchpod101 was created in July 2011, provides video and audio lessons with text expansion exercises and also tutoring services to paid subscribers or so-called “premium subscribers”. Dutchpod101 is a product of Innovative Language Learning and is produced in Tokyo, Japan.

Company
Dutchpod101.com’s daily operations and recordings are held in their Tokyo office. The parent company Innovative Language Learning LLC is based in New York. Since 2016, Innovative Language Learning provides and creates learning material for 34 languages.

Content
The Lessons on Dutchpod101 come in video and audio with a range in difficulty from beginner to advanced. They provide free learning material to an extent, paid subscribers gain access to all lesson materials such as flashcards, vocabulary list, transcriptions, lesson notes.

The learning platform provides a number of other features for premium subscribers for example dictionaries, curated lesson collections. Since 2014 the company offers a new subscription tier for personalized tutoring and 1-on-1 Dutch lesson through Skype.

The Dutchpod101 also provides a free podcast on YouTube. In addition to the free learning resources Dutchpod101 also has a website blog, which talks about Dutch culture and bank holidays.