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I have Dutch friends who swear they learned all their English simply by watching Friends on BBC in the Netherlands.
by qingcharles 1y ago
I have Dutch friends who swear they learned all their English simply by watching Friends on BBC in the Netherlands.
- golemiprague 1y agoThose two languages are very close, if he had to learn Japanese or Arabic he won't be able to do it.
- kabes 1y agoYou don't need to watch BBC for that. Not a lot of tv shows, even child programs are dubbed on Dutch tv. So you get accustomed to it early on. Combined with the fact the languages are closely related means the Dutch usually have a reasonable grasp of English before it's being taught in school.
- qingcharles 1y agoYeah, IIRC they mentioned most movie releases in the cinema are also in English too.
- draven 1y agoI learned english at school in France, and we're notoriously bad at teaching foreign languages. The approach is way to academic and mainly based on reading. That's why our accents are often atrocious. I was good at written tests, but what allowed me to actually get fluent (as in being able to think in english and convert my thoughts to speech in real time) was watching tv series in english with subtitles in english (no translation involved.)
- stevesimmons 1y agoThen they're lying... (Friends was on Veronica, Net5 and Comedy Central, not BBC :)
- barrenko 1y agoFor me in Croatia it was The Simpsons.