Comment by londons_explore
17 days ago
200 million people speak Swahili.
39 million people speak Polish, and most of those also speak English or another more common language.
17 days ago
200 million people speak Swahili.
39 million people speak Polish, and most of those also speak English or another more common language.
You could say the same about Dutch to be fair. 90-95% speak English - I bet that's way higher than in Poland.
As an American, my perspective is that Dutch people speak better English than a large percentage of English people and Americans.
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.
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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