All Dutch people Speaks English?

Question

Percentage of Dutch people who know how to speak English?

Answer 1

not really all but quite a lot of Dutch people speaks English
I would say a 80-85% are English speakers.

Answer 2

I'm Dutch, born 'n raised in the Netherlands. As a Dutch, English is a very common language. Not that our country is the world's most visited country or my city is Netherlands's most visited city, but all the TV commercials contain English audience and English titles. Like "New, Dove for men". Then, tune into one of our radio channels, you will hear that ⅔ commercials contain English blablabla. Next part, the songs played on the radio are mostly English. So in fact we follow the American toplist too. We are so sticked to English, that my friends wonder why some people cannot speak English that well… Next, all the movies you get to see in France, Germany, Mexico, or maybe Canada (I don't know) are synchronized to their general language. Here, where Dutch is our general language, all the movies are English synchronized, just the exact same voices you hear in America are here too. We just read the subtitles below, because though we understand English still we're not native Anglophones. And indeed, what's said, is that the Dutch are bilingual. I speak English since I was 8yo. I got English at the age of 8 on school and already spoke intermediate at that time. Now I speak fluently French too. German I understand little bit, because Dutch and German have both a lot in common, since they're both German languages. And no, Dutch is not German. The main reason is that English is a mode language here. Life in the Netherlands is based on English. Even the music who little bands (I'm in a band too) create songs with English lyrics. Why not Dutch?…, because that's "not cool" according to us. Why we all speak so good English is that it's our second native language, all thank to the history of the United States of America. Think about New Amsterdam (NYC). We are so connected to the USA, because according to our history we're born to be colonists. Well, though we're not any more, we do speak a lot English. I don't go to the cinema so many times anymore, costs 10€ for a seat here. So I download every single movie or TV series. Which makes it hard for me to find Dutch subtitles, so I try without and now 17 years old, I can follow media all in English as well.

Answer 3

i though it was 75%. well its the same. well it seems like 100% speak it bcuz i've been there and they all knew it so well.

Answer 4

no