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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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In my own personal experience: live in The Netherlands and go work in a small company were pretty much everybody is Dutch and the management wants to help you learn Dutch (so they keep doing all meetings in Dutch even though everybody there could speak English).
After a couple of years living there working in English-speaking multinational environments and thus without learning much Dutch, that specific situation forced my Dutch speaking skills to improve massively in a mere 3 months.
Otherwise it's pretty hard to learn Dutch, IMHO, unless you're starting from German (even better, Swiss-German) which is maybe the closest language to it (and Dutch grammar is actually simpler).
Oh… shitttttt. I shouldn't skip German lessons in high school now that I think about it.