Gogarty wrote:

Wilbur,

Most Hollanders of any education are fluent or nearly fluent in English.
So are most germans

Nobody else speaks Dutch, which is a very difficult language to master.

Not really.

Even Germans have a hard time with it.

Not really true. The northern germans have little difficulties, especially
those west of Bremen/Bremerhaven

I don't speak dutch, but I speak "Plattdeutsch", a very old northern german
language.
And it is similar enough to dutch to make it possible to understand it.

About the same distance in language as danish/swedish, for example
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