Its genuinely surprising to me that Dutch people don't seem to realize how close Dutch is to English. When I suggest this to a Dutch person, I am usually met with resistance? They say it is more like German, which I don't disagree with, but it's also very close to English obviously
Idk, I feel like French people are very aware that our language is close to Spanish or Italian. It's not an insult or anything! Language families are a thing