I find I can sometimes pick-up the jist of what's being said in a Dutch movie on television. Not completely, though. I still need the subtitles!
Just close enough to tease ya!
It's sooooo close though, isn't it?
I wish I could remember all the Dutch I knew in my youth. Much of it is gone now.
However the fact remains that Dutch and English are very similar. The closest, in fact.
And to a lesser degree so is Danish and the other Scandinavian languages.