How do Dutch ppl speak English so well?

[Thinking_CEL]

Most Europeans in general speak English very well but for some reason in the Netherlands they barely have an accent

I was in Amsterdam and everyone just sounds American

 

[Thinking_CEL]

If they went to the United States nobody would even notice they’re European

 

[Deleted member 117288]

I don't knoweth to beest quite honest chap, mayhap those dutch kingsmen has't some s'rt of black charm facilitating those folk beest m're fluent and native at which hour using the english lingo?

 

[Thinking_CEL]

I don't knoweth to beest quite honest chap, mayhap those dutch kingsmen has't some s'rt of black charm facilitating those folk beest m're fluent and native at which hour using the english lingo?

Blud thinks he’s Shakespeare

 

[Chadeep]

Colonization

 

[Thinking_CEL]

Colonization

They did colonise New York before the brits tbh

 

[otal_duu]

whenever I hear people speak Dutch in public I just think it sounds like German with a bad American accent lol.
They probably have a nearly flawless American accent because their own language has the same tones built in.

 

[Deleted member 68202]

Most Europeans in general speak English very well but for some reason in the Netherlands they barely have an accent

I was in Amsterdam and everyone just sounds American

Dutch is closer to English than the other European languages that you have heard

 

[Thinking_CEL]

whenever I hear people speak Dutch in public I just think it sounds like German with a bad American accent lol.
They probably have a nearly flawless American accent because their own language has the same tones built in.

Dutch language in general sounds like an American who learned German off duo lingo and is trying to speak it

Maybe that’s why they speak English so well cause they don’t need to change their accent

 

[Deleted member 55437]

Isn’t Dutch very similar to English??

 

[Thinking_CEL]

Isn’t Dutch very similar to English??

It’s more similar than German is it’s like a mix of the 2

I speak English and German so I can understand a lot of Dutch

 

[Deleted member 55437]

It’s more similar than German is it’s like a mix of the 2

I speak English and German so I can understand a lot of Dutch

Can you understand Yiddish? Apparently it’s high German

 

[Thinking_CEL]

Can you understand Yiddish? Apparently it’s high German

I understand like 10% of this shit

Tho German is my second language even tho I speak very well idk if a native speaker would understand more