My DVD player, getting on in years I suppose, has established a couple of little ... quirks.

While it will happily give me a film with the sound in English, whenever subtitles are available in Dutch, it will turn those on. After I get rid of them, it will put them back on at the start of each new chapter. When the DVD menus are available in German, it will give me those rather than the English; thankfully this is quite rare (since presumably if Germany wants localised versions of the big films it can get them) and there isn't usually much to work out, but it's still annoying.

I don't think I know anyone in Germany. I'm sure I don't know anyone in the Netherlands. I know one or two people in Belgium, where I gather Flemish is virtually the same language, but they have good English (or close enough), and in any case one of them is actually Norwegian. So clearly I don't need to learn Dutch, but the DVD player insists on trying to teach me...