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As an American, my perspective is that Dutch people speak better English than a large percentage of English people and Americans.
by gerad 7mo ago
As an American, my perspective is that Dutch people speak better English than a large percentage of English people and Americans.
- vkazanov 7mo agoHeh, based on my incorrect and probably wrong experience Dutch and Swedes are the best non-native english speakers in term of both the accent and fluency.
- viraptor 7mo agoThose and Icelandic people. But there's a fun correlation - see how much the US media content is played compared to local one per country. And which countries use subs rather than dubs or voiceovers in cinemas and TV. https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/e4d5cbf4-a839-4a8a-81d0-7b19a22cc5ce.0003.01/DOC_1 https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/e4d5cbf4-a839... If you have exposure to English media from young age and don't get a translation, you learn pretty quickly.
- RestartKernel 7mo agoAs a Dutch person, I'm very doubtful that's the case, but I'm willing to bet a good ESL speaker is more aware of common grammatical errors than some native speakers. For example, the your/you're mixup makes no sense if you've had to explicitly learn about English contractions in the first place.