Daily Dutch practice for newcomers, in a chat app they already have.
Yadeen runs inside Telegram. Every day it sends a few short speaking exercises built on situations people are actually walking into: the doctor, the pharmacy, the employer, the counter at the municipality. Answers are spoken, not typed. Feedback comes back in Arabic and Dutch.
There is no app to download, no account to make, and no fixed lesson time. The lesson arrives where the phone already is. That is the whole design.
Arabic-speaking status holders learning Dutch at their own pace, ten to fifteen minutes a day, explained in their own language.
Policy staff who need to know whether an integration programme is working. Cohort figures, and a signal when people start dropping off.
Language coaches whose students need practice between lessons, and something to show for it afterwards.
The exercise schedule uses spaced repetition, so the timing of each review is decided per person rather than by a syllabus. Privacy was a build constraint rather than a policy page: participants are pseudonymous by default and municipalities see cohorts, not people.
Medo Alotibe — Broeder Baard — went through the Dutch integration system himself, from arrival to citizenship, and shaped the programme from that side of it.
We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people. Sometimes we aren't, and we'll say so in the first email rather than the third meeting.
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