I tend to think rankings in language competency are somewhat bogus. Singapore may very well be number 1 if you can get past Lah but both Norway and the Netherlands impose stringent English requirements to graduate from high school (NL I am confident. Norway less so) - but anyone who has been to both Amsterdam-Hague-Utrecht and then Maastricht can testify, what's retained depends on where you go. Not all Dutch share the fluency of the western edge urban Landscape.
Well it's not getting more gooder betterer.
I tend to think rankings in language competency are somewhat bogus. Singapore may very well be number 1 if you can get past Lah but both Norway and the Netherlands impose stringent English requirements to graduate from high school (NL I am confident. Norway less so) - but anyone who has been to both Amsterdam-Hague-Utrecht and then Maastricht can testify, what's retained depends on where you go. Not all Dutch share the fluency of the western edge urban Landscape.