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June 30, 2021 at 10:51 am #1659936

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@crazyredcoat I learned them all as a kid.
Even before we got language classes I already was familliar with German tv (the joke that my dialect is close to German is not that wrong). I remember seeing ‘Fall guy’ on German tv. And I think I also saw Star Trek Next Generation.

Also keep in mind that we have subtitles for every foreign language movie, which really helps in learning a language.
When I discovered BBC I learned a lot thanks to their subtitles for the deaf (seeing and hearing the words helps).

At school we got French, German and English for a year.

Today kids start learning English at a very young age. I know my nephew (15) learned French because they often went on holiday in France.

Net result is that pretty much everyone of my generation in the Netherlands knows at least one additional language (usually English).