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Absolutely the Dutch are the top for speaking English.

I don’t think it’s our education system. I think it’s because we use subtitles in stead of dubbing everything. And Dutch and English are also pretty similar. We are such a tiny country that we relied on trading for many centuries. So therefore we also needed to speak English.

The Dutch speak English fairly well. But there's still a lot of room for improvement. I say this as a native Dutchman. Perhaps I'm too demanding, but I studied at teacher-training college and I still recall my very first lesson extremely well. My professor was a former professional translator and interpreter for the EU parliament. She spent over 45 minutes making clear to us how awful and unjustifiably overconfident the Dutch are about their language skills. After that lesson, I hardly dared to speak in English while she was around. But she really spoke impeccable English and she loved it to correct native English speakers.

Spreche lieber kein Englisch. DEUTSCHLAND!

I'm always in contact with Dutch men and women who speak English, sometimes I even sleep listening to them speak it, it's beautiful, they have a native level even better than natives, they speak even better than natives, they study English, they are addicted to English and there is no regionalism in their language. Not their English, look, English is full of dialects and languages and versions of English too. Dutch, Swedes, Frisians, Norwegians and Icelanders and Danes should compete to see who has the best English as a playful lady. Italians use a lot of English, even too much of their own language. I also get lost with the Italians, they explain beautiful interpretive English, they beat the natives because they apply the international phonetic alphabet in English. Others do this too, and these guys have another level of English. They encourage you to speak, they excite you and encourage you to speak English even if you are a non-native and just a basic and interpretative level of explanation, they even like to help, of course, people today have to speak international English like Dutch to be understood. In France, it's horrible, most people don't want to speak English and culturally they are left behind, but the French who speak English have good native or almost native language, but there are very few of them, but when you think about it, they also help you a lot with communication, but France and Germany They do need to improve their communication in English. hugs to everyone.

The Spanish person said they’re terrible in Spain, then proceeds to speak English better and a clearer accent than host. The Scottish guy has a really beautiful accent, but in truth he did of course know that the interviewer was not a native speaker as his Dutch accent is quite strong.

Good 'at' English.... The answer: no.

In het VK spreken ze overigens meer talen dan alleen het Engels.. Pak maar is een trein vanuit Engeland richting Wales met geluk heb je gelijk een trein die in het tweetalig is anders zie je het wel bij aankomst op station dat bordjes etc allemaal tweetalig is.

I love dutch English accent

You guys are very good at English. I’m from the UK and visited The Netherlands 🇳🇱 recently. The good news is I’m learning Dutch for the purpose of connecting more with the locals, reading 📖 and listening. I’m learning German which I know a bit more than Dutch.

I think Dutch pronunciation of English is cute

Then I must have had a different experience here in Rotterdam. I'm originally from Aruba, there we speak 4 languages (Papiamento, Dutch, English and Spanish). When I moved to the Netherlands to study abroad in college (HBO) I have met a lot of native and non-native students. From what I can recall, the non-natives spoke English better than the natives. The natives student had a lot of trouble speaking english or their pronounciation weren't that good. So to my suprise I came across this video and couldn't believe it. I must say that the only city where I heard native people speaking fluent English is, in Amsterdam, all of the cashiers at the markets or shopping centre speaks English because of how many clients (tourists) they recieve on a daily basis. Not shaming anyone, just flabbergasted about the video and with my experiences during my college times.

Many people don't realize this, but it's not the school system that provides good ways to learn English, it's the Dutch subtitles and original English/American audio in series and movies thta we watch and when growing up that subconsciously makes us more proficient at English.

My brother lives in Amsterdam & I’m over there a lot. I’ve not met a teenager or adult that didn’t speak English. Senior adults were hit or miss. Kids, about twenty years ago, didn’t speak it, but today, they mostly do. And The Dutch speak it really well.

My anecdotal experience with native Dutch people: Pronunciation...not quite right, but better than scotland, ireland, north carolina, australia, alabama, arkansas, nyc, india, manila, boston, montreal... Grammar...probably about a 3rd grade level on average, which is fluent American idioms...surprisingly fluent

The best English speeking Dutch people live in the East Northeast of Holland. Their accent seems to merge perfectly with English . Most of our best singers are borne in that region .

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I have a Co-worker from England, living 25 years in the Netherlands. But he can not speak Dutch, because 99% of the people in the Netherlands speaks perfectly English. And I have a Co-worker from Syria, living 3 years in the Netherlands and speak perfectly Dutch, because nobody speaks Syrian overhere.

I suppose not, because grammatically the caption of this video should read: "Are the Dutch really that good AT English?" 🤣

Do you think it would be possible to live in the netherlands just with knowing english

I studied In Amsterdam when I was too younger and officially English in The Netherlands comes naturally. Thanks to this Beauty nation I got the facilities to know English.

It's not the school system, it's not the 'trading nation', it's subbing not dubbing.

I speak English very well.. nog niet zo snel, but that komt nog wel... :P

I've been in Sweden, the people I met spoke amazingly well English. Also their accent was very good, often sounding like a native speaker (American or UK), and much better than the Dunglish I often hear (like Rutte).

i live in the North of the country, in a little village in the Groningen province, and many people here do not even speak standard Dutch, let alone English, I find that extremely frustrating. I can speak Dutch, but I use it only when I go to Groningen or other parts of the Netherlands, cause here most people answer me in the local dialect. I think it really depends on which part of the Netherlands one comes from. As many people have mentioned here, The Netherlands is not just the capital and the Randstad

That good? Yep! Try outstanding ! 😀

The man in the street speaks English ok, but politicians do so in a horrible way.

I am an ace in English as long as I don't open my mouth. Writing and reading on "expert level" but when I talk you know... that dude is Dutch. I have a horrible fat accent.

Dutch people learn English when they are young. In many big cities in English speaking countries, many people learned English as a second language so in a lot of ways I found the Dutch had more proficient English than here in Toronto.

I remember going to the USA and speaking English there when I was 14. My cousins asked me what language we spoke at home, with our friends and found it hard to believe that Dutch was actually our native language. Not sure if they were just being young and silly, or if our English was convincing enough though xD

Do European speak British accent or American accent?

And I think they are a little overselfassured, which is the main reason for Dunglish. For example the other day I went to my son’s school for the first “intake” and we discussed his school “traject”

I have been living in the Netherlands for 8 months, maybe because I live in a small town, I have never experienced all these positive things everybody mentioned about the Dutch people’s English. They have an accentnot strong but they do, you can hear it especially when they are articulating the v, s and sh sounds- one man told me about Covid test and we were standing next to a vending machine and I thought he was talking about the coffee taste. Also, maybe again in the town I’m living, many people can speak the basic phrases and when the conversation gets deeper they mske a lot of mistakes and can’t even find the correct words.

Ok I was born in Germany but raised in Landgraff , Nederlands . My parents are American. People always ask me why I only know basic Dutch. Well honestly I know 100 percent I can travel to my favorite country and speak english without a worry. I will take it upon myself to brush up on Dutch but they are shocked when I speak it 😂😂😂

It's true and undoubtful, both language are so close related to the same root, which is the North Sea Germanic language. So why question about how good they are good in English?

Italian people sound like they're from New York or Boston

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Dutch people have a great education system and they like to travel. So if they learn english they can communicate in many countries. Also they have very nice accent

Try speak english in rural netherlands, villages, and small towns, youll discover great things

They speak good English

They are not that good in English you can barely understand them

This English man loves the Nederlands & it’s warm friendly people.the Dutch speak English happily unlike the French who are an arrogant set & Will never get over their 2 week defeat bu the Germans & then they needed rescuing by the Anglo speaking Brits & Americans. I’ve no time for the old bitter french, we saved you from Hitler whilst you were busy collaborating.

the Dutch are amazing at English that is very true

“If you are from the north maybe it’s Easier, but if you are from the south..” I’ve never hear some stupid things like that… I’m from south of Italy and compared to you I can say 100% that my accent is better than yours…PADANA 😒

??? English is the easiest language in the world, and to boot, it's remarkably similar to Dutch. Both descend from the same Proto-Germanic language, but have simplified over the years; however, English has taken the simplifications much farther than Dutch has, and there isn't one aspect of English that be any whit harder than in Dutch. All this is to say, it is not remarkable nor even worthy of adulation that the Dutch should attain such high proficiency in English - were it to be the converse, yes, that merits kudos. The Dutch are not some super linguistic geniuses as a whole. English is the least complex European language, and is the result of creolization between invading Vikings then conquering Normans... Sorry, Dutchfolk, but y'all aren't geniuses. Try learning Korean en masse then we'll be talking.

I dunno if I'll ever have the money to travel but one thing I'd like to do is see the country side of countries, and not just the cities. Can I get by with just speaking english in the Dutch Country side or should I learn some dutch for the Rural people? (Problem with me learning languages is that its hard for me to remember complex things as someone with ADHD)

They speak american english or british?

I'd say about 50-75% of them speak english. Roughly. So if you got a group of 5 people, at least 1-2 will speak it. The key is in the numbers.

We've interviewed several people who speak English very poorly in an endeavor to pride pride ourselves.