This comment will probably never be read, but nevertheless ...
I am a Frenchman living in the Netherlands. And you are both correct and incorrect ...
The Dutch are probably among the most fluent non-native English speakers in Europe, BUT, they speak for most of them a "good enough" English, and not at all a perfect English.
This usually materializes even more when they are writing.
There is even several books (usually written by Dutch authors themselves) making fun of "dutchisms".
That said, I don't necessarily consider myself better ... Simply, I do other kind of mistakes, so their mistakes usually strike me more than my own mistakes of course, but mistakes of other French speakers as well
While most of the Dutch people I've heard speak did so with perfectly fluent English (and American accents -- thank you, Hollywood), you're unwittingly assuming he's relatively young -- my understanding is that, not surprisingly, levels of English fluency drop off somewhat rapidly with age in the current Dutch population.
I am a Frenchman living in the Netherlands. And you are both correct and incorrect ...
The Dutch are probably among the most fluent non-native English speakers in Europe, BUT, they speak for most of them a "good enough" English, and not at all a perfect English.
This usually materializes even more when they are writing. There is even several books (usually written by Dutch authors themselves) making fun of "dutchisms".
That said, I don't necessarily consider myself better ... Simply, I do other kind of mistakes, so their mistakes usually strike me more than my own mistakes of course, but mistakes of other French speakers as well