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A comment on Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Videos with My 7-Year-Old. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by duckmysick on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:22AM (#39535409)
Are you saying that kids of age six can understand and speak English at a basic level - say half way to A1?

Or is it just a basic familiarity (like a couple of most common words) and awareness that English exists?

EDIT: I see from a reply below by Freak_NL that it probably means before the kids start learning English at school. That makes more sense, as they would be older at that point.

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Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by kwhitefoot on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:24AM (#39536177)
> as they would be older at that point.

I don't know about The Netherlands but here in Norway children start learning English as soon as they start school at the age of five or six. But quite likely many of them will have at least some English already because of English language television, computer games, etc.

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