When I separately asked my Norwegian flatmate and Swedish boss why they could speak English so naturally, they both said it was from watching tv.
Basically programmes and films weren’t dubbed into Scandinavian languages in the 80’s and 90’s - populations too small for it to be economically viable, so they just watched with subtitles on and got very used to hearing English speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/14/focus-on-sounds-to-help-learn-a-language-study-suggests
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