Berichten: 5
Taal: English
vincas (Profiel tonen) 10 maart 2017 10:42:25
Roch (Profiel tonen) 10 maart 2017 15:53:49
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Vestitor (Profiel tonen) 11 maart 2017 00:09:31
The alleged English competence of the Netherlands is particularly overblown. It has reached a high pitch of self-delusion whereby one set of incompetent speakers is guided by another set of incompetents and everyone pats themselves on the back with regard to their accomplished fluency. Added to this is the arrogance of the authorities in supposing that it warrants a portion of Dutch higher education being taught in English. I used to sit in the library and hear students puzzling out words and meanings and misinforming one another. It's laughable, but problematic. I suppose the idea is that it gives everyone some sort of springboard into 'world English', but what it really does is give native English speakers even more of the whip-hand.
Great for me and other native English-speakers, not so great for everyone else.
Nuramo (Profiel tonen) 11 maart 2017 05:25:21
Roch (Profiel tonen) 11 maart 2017 05:34:13
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*There it would be a done step, because so far the languages at the EU had to be official in at least one of the adherent countries!