The benefit of foreign TV

Travelling in the Netherlands and Scandinavia it's amazing just how good everyone's second language (English) is. It's hard to find someone who doesn't speak English. One off the reasons is that for films and other TV programmes which originate in English, they are not dubbed into a local language -- so everyone gets practice daily understanding English. For countries like Germany which dub foreign programmes into their local language this is a shame as generations will grow up missing the opportunity to understand another language as well as the Scandinavians and Dutch do!