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German here, foreign languages only in school: English (more or less fluent), Russian (totally forgotten), and an awkward amount of Japanese.
The biggest boost in my English skills was playing an RPG. Later on it was reading books in English, like the Diskworld, where so much is in the language which is hard or impossible to translate.
Today I read (and write) more in English than German I think. But since I have never been in an English country, I would not consider myself fluent. Put me in a kitchen and I am quite lost once we leave the spork-and-spoon territory, even though an online university test once confirmed I had a very good understanding of English for a native speaker. (Yeah, if you ask science terms 😆)
I can also confirm that, even they are defined as 2 different languages, if you are a German knowing a few basic rules and words, like after a month of training in my case (and English), you can understand most of Dutch if you take your time. When I was there I could read the newspaper, albeit slowly. So much it surprised me quite a bit actually. I hadn't learned even 200 words. But the rest could be gleaned by similarities and content.
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