Upvote not because of girl but because it’s an interesting situation however I do concede I clicked first because of girl

There was a study posted to Lemmy recently that showed that it is easier to pronounce Dutch while being drunk.

If you speak English most people in the Netherlands probably already speak it better than you.

I used to work for a publisher in the Netherlands called Coutinho, they specialize in second language acquisition and have some excellent materials on Dutch. Probably not for free, though.

I've started using Dutch in 3 Months, by Hugo. Ignoring the timeframe the title gives, it seems decent because it has an app alongside it for hearing the pronunciations of each word, so you learn to speak and read essentially at the same time.

I got my book online.

In my own personal experience: live in The Netherlands and go work in a small company were pretty much everybody is Dutch and the management wants to help you learn Dutch (so they keep doing all meetings in Dutch even though everybody there could speak English).

After a couple of years living there working in English-speaking multinational environments and thus without learning much Dutch, that specific situation forced my Dutch speaking skills to improve massively in a mere 3 months.

Otherwise it's pretty hard to learn Dutch, IMHO, unless you're starting from German (even better, Swiss-German) which is maybe the closest language to it (and Dutch grammar is actually simpler).

If you have money and time, use Preply.

For spoken language learning, nothing beats the Pimsleur method. Easily found by those, who sail the high seas

Regarding European languages one can never go wrong with the Assimil series so I'd check that first (it's available on annas-archive as a zip archive with the audio files included). You can make a solid base with just Assimil, but you can also include anki decks or grammar drills corresponding to your current level to progress at a brisk pace.