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Comment by zofer12

6 hours ago

no, not really, dutch are close to german. Spanish is closer to english, than dutch.

The Foreign Service Institute has a language difficulty rating, based on the first language of a speaker, to estimate the number of class hours needed to achieve fluency in English.

Learning English from Dutch is 24-30 weeks whereas from German is 36 weeks. I am assuming some degree of reciprocity but maybe not.

(1) https://dlsdc.com/blog/fsi-language-difficulty/