Timeline for Languages spoken in the Netherlands
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| Aug 8, 2017 at 16:05 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | While people in small towns with hardly ever a tourist might not have their English handy, the percentage of people who have learned it is as high as in Amsterdam. Give them a moment to adjust and they will happily use their English or if not good enough, direct you with hand signals. | |
| Aug 27, 2014 at 8:31 | comment | added | Ashalynd | My own kids who grew up in NL learned English even before they started getting official English lessons (they could speak it quite confidently and read books at the age of 9-10 years without any efforts from our side). I am not a native Dutch speaker though (but on the other hand, our home language is not English either). | |
| Aug 27, 2014 at 7:25 | comment | added | jwenting | the main reason is that English is mandatory for ALL children for several years, and most tend to take it as an elective topic after that until highschool (equivalent) graduation. | |
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| Aug 27, 2014 at 1:01 | history | answered | Ashalynd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |