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by Gmo 5359 days ago
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