TMOliver,

As a group, I suspect that Scandinavians are more likely to be "effective"
English speakers than are Germans, and in my experience the Dutch are more
likely to be at least semi-fluent in English than are other nationalities.


One of the more interesting reasons for this: In Germany, TV shows/movies are
dubbed to German language. In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, they are
subtitled. This has been shown to influence English literacy greatly.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)