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Nah, Anglophones tend to struggle with Germanic/Scandinavian languages in general, in my experience, due to not being at all used to the concept of words changing suffixes (at least, not as much) depending on things like tenses and definiteness. Also screwing up the pronunciation of even very...

It's exactly the same in Swedish. The Swedish "om" is basically identical to the Dutch; Using your examples, "round" is "rund/runt", "around" is "omkring". There is also "runtomkring" which basically means "all around", and "omringa" which is "surround".

I learned English partly through school (English being one of the four primary subjects in the Swedish education system alongside Math, Social Studies and Swedish), but mostly through watching British and American TV shows and movies and reading English literature from all over the world. I am...