Well, I had to learn it at some point, but I honestly don't remember when exactly that happened. I cannot recall a time that I did not speak English! A lot of kids in the Netherlands pick it up naturally because there is a lot of English around, on tv and in music. By the time we get to High School, most Dutch kids speak English so well that there is no need for formal English teaching with grammar and things like that. So yeah, I did supposedly learn English at some point, but I can't remember it. :D I guess this is the best way to learn a new language and I was just lucky growing up in the Netherlands in the 80s. A lot of cartoons and kids' shows were imported straight from the UK and there was not a lot of music in Dutch on the radio, so my environment had a lot more English in it than kids have nowadays.
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