Dude, everyone in the Netherlands speaks English. This map can't be right.
I was visiting a friend in the Netherlands, who had to work one day which left me exploring Rotterdam alone. I commented that I was worried about what I was going to do for lunch, since I didn't speak Dutch and didn't know how I was going to order food.
He said, "just go into a Burger King and start speaking English - the cashier will understand you unless they completely failed highschool." I always appreciated that about Dutch culture. They all speak 3 or 4 languages seemingly effortlessly.
Almost every Dutch person does speak English, but if you get outside of the cities it's often not very good Dutch.
I spent a few years feeling like shit because of my terrible Dutch, until my sister came to visit. My partner had a birthday party during the visit, so lots of the people I had known for years but only spoke Dutch with had to switch to English to chat with my sister. Imagine my surprise to discover that my ridiculous Dutch was better than their English!
In the Netherlands the person would not respond to the question:
'Dove' means deaf person in Dutch
I know I shoehorned that joke in, but a friend of mine dated a partially deaf person that was angry because of that brand name and that was so absurdly funny to me that I needed to share
I think they asked only old ladies in the Baltics too.
No women in northern Norway I guess?
None that use shampoo
well then they could still be asked
more like none that shower
or in the fucking capital of denmark
I would sooner believe they don't shower (maybe hot baths only?). :)
At least it's not a population heatmap
