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s|b wrote:

> Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> I do not find English particularly difficult. German is worse.
> 
> I agree and my native language, Dutch, is related to German. I studied
> German for 2 years and it was a PITA.
I heard that unless you grow up as a child in a Dutch speaking 
household, you may well learn the language, but will never get the 
phonetics right?