Sentinz.
For serious learners · In testing now
Vocabulary, grammar, speaking and the exam in one app.
Built for people in the Netherlands preparing for Inburgering or NT2.
Explained in English, Dutch, Turkish, Polish and Ukrainian
Tell me when it opensWhy Sentinz?
Recognising a word and being able to use it are two different skills. Speaking starts with building sentences, so every word you learn in Sentinz ends in a sentence of your own.
de afspraak
A card with a picture, a voice and the article. A good start, but you cannot use it yet.
Ik heb morgen een afspraak bij de huisarts.
You say or type a sentence of your own, and the check confirms the article and the word order. From here on, the word is yours.
Kan ik mijn afspraak naar dinsdag verzetten?
The tutor and your Dutch neighbour ask real questions, and the sentences you have built start to come on their own.
Five findings from language and memory research, and the framework your exam is built on.
Idea → sentence → sound
In the standard model of how people speak, a speaker turns an idea into a sentence, retrieving words and fitting them into a grammatical frame, before any sound is made.
So a word helps you speak once you can place it in a sentence.
Levelt (1989), Speaking: From Intention to Articulation, MIT Press.
Notice · test · reflect
Having to say or write something makes learners notice what they cannot yet express, try out how the language works, and reflect on it.
So every card in Sentinz ends with you producing, not only recognising.
Swain (1995), “Three functions of output in second language learning”, Oxford University Press.
Write it > read it
Learners who wrote with new words remembered more of them than learners who met the same words in a glossed reading text. A 2022 review of twenty years of follow-up studies counts composition writing among the tasks with the most positive evidence.
Hulstijn & Laufer (2001), Language Learning 51(3). Liu & Reynolds (2022), Behavioral Sciences 12(10).
About 80% vs 36%
Students learning foreign vocabulary who kept producing the words from memory recalled about 80% of them a week later. Those whose recall practice stopped, even when they kept studying, recalled 36% or less.
So Sentinz brings words back for you to produce, not to reread.
Karpicke & Roediger (2008), Science 319, 966–968.
Fluency runs on sentences
Native-like fluency rests on a large store of memorised sentences and sentence stems, which speakers recall whole instead of building every sentence from scratch.
So each sentence you build is one you can reach for in a real conversation.
Pawley & Syder (1983), in Richards & Schmidt (eds.), Language and Communication, Longman.
A1 → A2 → B1
The European framework behind the inburgering and NT2 exams describes speaking at A1 as “I can use simple phrases and sentences…”, at A2 as “a series of phrases and sentences”, and at B1 as connecting them to describe experiences and events.
Council of Europe, CEFR self-assessment grid (Europass).
Inside the app
A one-minute tour of the app, from flashcards to exam practice. Select any topic to explore it at your own pace.
Flashcards
Picture, sound, plural and a real sentence, with the same family you meet everywhere in the app. Or scan a letter and learn its words.
Gisteren ik ging → ging ik naar de markt.
Verb second, even after “gisteren”.Grammar
A1 to C2 in short units: see the rule, hear it, then use it in a sentence of your own. Every topic is there to look up when you need one.
Neighbours
Your Dutch neighbours. They only speak Dutch, they have news, and they want to hear yours. A real conversation at your level, with a short report after.
AI tutor
Keep going on the go with hands-free mode: hold the ring, and the tutor reads your cards and listens for your sentence.
Bij de bakker
Bij de huisarts
ThuisPractice
At home, at the bakery, at the huisarts. Watch a scene, say what happens, and pick up the expressions nobody teaches you.
Words 19/42 · Speaking 17/42 min · Exam 1/2
Tonight’s plan takes 13 min.
Your plan
Pick what matters most and Sentinz drafts your week. See where you stand at a glance. No points, no streak to protect.
Exam
Inburgering A2 with KNM, and both NT2 programmes. Full papers on the current format, marked part by part, with your date and reminders.
What’s inside
Six parts that work as one: what you learn in a course comes back in your cards, your conversations and your plan.
Every card knows its article.
Short units from A1 to C2.
Say it out loud and get an answer.
The Dutch you hear every day.
The exam you are actually sitting.
A week drafted around your goals.
Also in Sentinz
The app, the meanings and the examples in English, Turkish, Polish or Ukrainian, or all in Dutch once you are ready.
Speech, photos and progress are processed in the EU. Nothing is sold, and nothing trains AI models. Privacy Policy
No streaks, no gems, no leagues. A word counts as learned once you have used it in a sentence, spoken or typed.
Sentinz is in testing now and opens on the App Store soon. Write to us and we will tell you the day it does. Teaching NT2? Ask about trying it with a class.
Tell me when it opensIf nothing opens, write to info@sentinz.com.
