Originally posted by
Aragorn
That might be because I started teaching myself English from the age of 6-7 on, long before we had any English classes at school. English classes only started here in 8th grade, and even though by that time my peers only knew the meaning of "boy", "girl" and "sex", when I myself was that age, I could already hold up a decent conversation in English.
And of course, our education system over here teaches us other things than just how great the United States of God Bless America are. :p
(Note: I am a born-and-bred Belgian, not a Dutchman, even though the Flemish do indeed speak what linguists call Southern Dutch. But apart from the mainstream media and teachers, almost nobody here speaks the official Dutch. Virtually everyone here actually speaks their regional dialect. ;))