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geradlast Wednesday at 11:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

As an American, my perspective is that Dutch people speak better English than a large percentage of English people and Americans.


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RestartKernelyesterday at 1:27 PM

As a Dutch person, I'm very doubtful that's the case, but I'm willing to bet a good ESL speaker is more aware of common grammatical errors than some native speakers. For example, the your/you're mixup makes no sense if you've had to explicitly learn about English contractions in the first place.

vkazanovyesterday at 6:19 AM

Heh, based on my incorrect and probably wrong experience Dutch and Swedes are the best non-native english speakers in term of both the accent and fluency.

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