Higher Education in The Netherlands

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My experiences are that in the cities and with younger people, their English is quite fluent. When you get out into the countryside, and when speaking with older people then Dutch is required. Dutch is pretty easy to learn for either English or German speakers as it seems a meld of the two. I have a close friend from South Africa, for whom I'm learning (slowly) Afrikaans (which is an older dialect of Dutch).