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Presentation at the National Study Day LOWAN-vo on 8 April 2019. Many Dutch people think that learning their language is difficult for foreigners. But is that true? The language distance between the mother tongue of an NT2 learner and Dutch is crucial in this regard. But the degree of transparency of a language can also play a role. The question then is what this means for NT2 education: What is the role of the mother tongue? What exactly are the stumbling blocks that newcomers encounter? And what does this mean for policy makers and teachers?