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[-] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the correction, it's a good thing that not everyone is afraid of correcting others.

English education tends to have it easy because of circumstances rather than the schooling system: Dutch is a relatively small language and we mostly don't dub foreign media. Lots of exposure to English makes it easier to teach English to a higher standard than would otherwise be the case. When I was in school, French was started 2 years earlier, got more hours, and still got worse results :D

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If you're terminally online, which, as a Lemmy user I'd say is a good chance, your exposure to English is going to naturally be a lot more too.

Like, I wish I could speak with you in Dutch or French but other than parler un petit peu francais my language skills are firmly grounded in English and that's about it. At least it seems to be the language of the internet, so that's something.

Thanks for the correction, it's a good thing that not everyone is afraid of correcting others

Normally I wouldn't even call it out but it seemed like something you might care about since you pointed the punctuation out. I'm glad you took it positively!

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