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finlandinuk: Swedes, Danes, Dutch, Finns and Norwegians are the best non-native English speakers in the world: http://t.co/XJZndQNT via @TheEconomist
Thursday, 01-Nov-12 12:38:18 UTC from brdcst.it-
@jla In my defence, most Dutch people are fairly terrible at the English language. Little things like games not being available in our native language, but in German and English most of the time does generally improve your knowledge of said language, as you start to learn early, especially because games are a fun medium for learning, well, anything, really. Therefore, I believe that the fact that we are a fairly small country for which a lot of products don't get translated is the main reason we score high, even though most people I talk to still have a fairly low English skill. At least, in my opinion, and I understand that it may be biased because I barely speak English with foreigners compared to how often I do with other Dutch people (which is, as you may expect, fairly often during English class). Long story short, I'm pretty proud of my country for once.
Thursday, 01-Nov-12 12:47:21 UTC from web -
@jla not too surprising, all of those languages are the closest to english that I know of, with the exception of finnish(which is very well connected to the former group and has one of the best education systems on the planet)
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