im serious i use this like everyday to practice songs its so helpful
A fan tool that teaches you to pronounce Joost Klein lyrics. Phonetics, translations, pronunciation scoring, all in your browser.
Word Cards
Key Dutch words with phonetics + meaning. Tap to hear them.
geld
/khelt/
Meaning
money
Lyric Breakdown
Line by line. Dutch, phonetics, English.
Ik ben echt alles kwijt behalve de tijd
ik ben ekht AL-uhs kvayt buh-HAL-vuh duh tayt
I've truly lost everything except time
Welkom in Europa, jongen!
VEL-kom in uh-ROH-pa, YONG-uhn
Welcome to Europe, boy!
Pronunciation Drill
Mic-based AI scoring against real Dutch.
Pronunciation score
82%Close. The g is further back in the throat than you think.
Fill the Gap
Quiz on the key vocab from each song.
Fill the gap
Heb ____ geen visum nodig om bij je te zijn
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Europapa
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One Dutch word a day
One word out of Joost's lyrics, and six tries to get it. Each time you miss, you get another clue. You can play it knowing no Dutch at all, and it takes about two minutes.
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this is awesome! I'd love to learn Dutch via quizes and lyrics
i love you for this, u just made my life so much easier
you don't know what this means to me
I'm having so much fun with it, thanks!!
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A free fan tool that helps non-Dutch speakers learn to pronounce Joost Klein songs. Phonetics, translations, AI pronunciation scoring, vocab quizzes.
I'm only human, horses are better. Drop me a note here and I'll fix it.
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AI Facts
what's actually in this fan project
Per visit
Speech recognition in the drillevery try
Your voice kept by this site0
Per new song
Phonetics draftedevery line
Translations draftedevery line
Never, in any amount
His voice cloned or synthesised0
His music used to train a model0
Design or feature ideas0
Human review
Everything is reviewed by a real human before it's published.
Allergic to AI?
Full breakdown below.
I want to be upfront about how AI is used here, since most Joost fans care about it.
The drill uses speech recognition, the same tech as iPhone dictation and YouTube captions. It listens and compares, and it generates nothing. Your recording goes straight from your browser to Microsoft, so it never passes through this site at all.
I put the lyrics in myself. AI drafts the pronunciation guides, the translations and the vocab words, then I review all of it. That is the kinda slow part of adding a song.
The site's own code was written with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Absolutely not. It'll just get you close enough to sing along without completely butchering it. For actual Dutch, try Duolingo or something.
Yes!!
The pronunciation drill has a daily usage limit since the speech recognition costs money, but everything else is free and unlimited. If the site is useful to you, you can buy me an onion.
Eventually. Currently working on his past 3 years of songs. I'll keep adding more content and iterating.
No. That's the whole point.