The one Dutch-language thing that still gets me is that there are two words for 'earlier', and I can never remember which one to use in what situation

@jmopp what are they, and when are you supposed to use them?

@davidnjoku so there is 'vroeger', which means earlier in time, and then there is 'eerder', which means earlier as in "I called earlier". I haven't really internalised the difference between the two yet

@jmopp If you used vroeger when you want to say 'I called earlier', how big of a mistake is it - small, or so large that a native speaker would almost find it incomprehensible?