Yes, English and Dutch are rather similar. There is a difference in how tenses are used and it is known that Dutch speakers often make mistakes with using the w

Yes, English and Dutch are rather similar. There is a difference in how tenses are used and it is known that Dutch speakers often make mistakes with using the wrong tense in English. In Dutch the verb, when consisting of more than one part, is split, where most parts and up at the end of the sentense, just like in German. Dutch is somewhere in the middle of English and German. I do understand German, but find it hard to speak, because I end up using English words all the time. I guess that if I would spend a few months in German, I would be able to speak it enough to communicate with native speakers. The hardest part of German to master is that all nouns have a gender and the partical depends on the gender and the case (nominative, accusative, dative or genitive). I do know a little Chinese (Mandarin) and I do know that there are languages with completely different sentense structure and different grammar structs. I do not know if bilingual people with two languages that are far apart experience a similar intergration as I experience with English and Dutch, but I do know that they are able to switch from one to the other and instantly.