Approximately 46% of Dutch people can speak English fluently. Another 20% of Dutch people can speak English well enough to hold basic conversations with fluent English speakers.
Fluently: Danish, Italian, Spanish and English. Can understand Swedish and Japanese. Not sure of his efficiency in Japanese and Dutch.
Yes, the Dutch language system is very good and almost everyone speaks English, especially young people.Yes, Dutch people tend to know English. In fact, the Netherlands is a multilingual country. Many people there speak not only Dutch but also English, French, German, Spanish or even Italian.Most Dutch people have a basic understanding of the English language, since it's a mandatory subject in school.
Lexical similarity percentages vary dramatically based on who is doing the study and what words are being compared. But many studies show that Dutch has at least a 60% lexical similarity to English.
English, Spanish, Dutch and French
Australia and the U.S.
Fluently: Danish, Italian, Spanish and English. Can understand Swedish and Japanese. Not sure of his efficiency in Japanese and Dutch.
Martin van Buren.
I'm not sure about the exact percentage, but English, Frisian, Dutch and German originally all derive from the Western-Gaelic language group, so there are definite similarities! For example: the English word Friend is Vjriend in Frisian, Vriend in Dutch and Freund in German.
In Holland, the Dutch adjective is "Holland's." There is no true adjective for Holland in English. The closest adjective in English is "Dutch," however, that not only applies to Holland but to all of the Netherlands. It is also common to hear "of or from Holland" in English.
They learn it at school, they also watch English tv and movies. Most of the Dutch people can speak it very well and they learn it because nobody else speaks Dutch in the world.
English and Spanish are languages that people speak fluently in the Aruban village of Madiki. Additionally, they tend to know well French and Portuguese. All of these languages are in addition to the villagers' native knowledge of Papiamento and of Dutch, the island's official language.
He was a dutch. as evident in one of the series, where ross learns dutch and tries to show off at Gunther, but Gunther replies him back in dutch more fluently.
The people of the Netherlands call themselves: 'Nederlanders' in dutch language. In English we call ourselves: Dutch. Or sometimes we use 'Dutchmen' to refer to dutch people. The word 'Dutch' comes from the word 'Diets' which was how the Netherlands were referred to in ancient times. The English then translated 'Diets' to 'Dutch'. Therefore we are called 'Dutch people'.
Dutch (by the English) Nederlander by themselves
The Dutch govener was Peter Stuyvesant
Emily is a name of a female. Translation from English to Dutch does not change the names of people.
Yes, the Dutch language system is very good and almost everyone speaks English, especially young people.Yes, Dutch people tend to know English. In fact, the Netherlands is a multilingual country. Many people there speak not only Dutch but also English, French, German, Spanish or even Italian.Most Dutch people have a basic understanding of the English language, since it's a mandatory subject in school.