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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Portuguese can speak english just fine.( I'm clearly biased since I am portuguese.)

I think a major difference is that Portugal has the original audio on every movie/show except kid shows, which improves our english accent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Bingo, while the affinity that the local language has with English grammar and how hard foreign languages are pushed at school are contributors, this is the main one. This is why relatively uneducated people in the Netherlands and north of it are all fluent in English, and why Italians, Spanish and French are not. I Grew up with all Hollywood movie dubbed and in general Italian television in the 80s and 90s was 100% in Italian, didn't do me any favour. It's changing, and kids now rely less on TV and more on the internet.

Anedoctally,I've been bitching about the French for a very long time, like in the meme, but in my last few visits to France in the last decade or so I had no issue interacting in English everywhere (used to be fluent in French but no more)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Indeed, I added the sub/dub aspect in another comment