Originally posted by Francko
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Firstly if, as a 'foreigner', you're claiming better proficiency in English because you learnt it at school, then I would suggest that the above post, and others in this thread, are not a very strong argument for that being the case. It seems a presumption similarly made by many Dutch/Flemish speakers here.
Secondly, as for the suggestion that only years and years of training (or the benefit of that 'study' at school) makes it possible to achieve fluency in a language I will put forward two people I know personally. One my manager who learnt Dutch only in the last year or two and now uses it in all meetings/discussions with Dutch speakers, and secondly a Polish girl I met on a course who passed the Dutch (native speaker level) exams which allowed her to study at university within one year of arriving.
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