How is that only 49%? I’d say we’re on par with UK. We’re brutal when it comes to speaking foreign languages.
I think if I recall a newspaper article from a previous census correctly, Irelands first and second languages are foreign; English, followed by Polish.
Ireland 0%
or this sub is just turning into a map porn fetish the last week
Is this self-reported? There are about 5 people in Spain that can speak English
‘He says in said language without any sense of irony’.
21.3% of Germans say they can’t speak a foreign language but will then speak English better than you can.
Including Irish I would say fewer than 10% can competently speak a second language
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I assume it means non-official languages of each country, so anything other than English or Irish. But you’re right, it’s badly phrased.
By that logic you can also say that the English also speak a foreign language as Germanic settlers in the 6th century displaced Britonic Celtic as the main language with Anglo Saxon (Old English)
Sure nearly 100% of Ireland speaks a foreign language.
Wow so edgy.
The native language of this land is a foreign language for most of us.
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How is that only 49%? I’d say we’re on par with UK. We’re brutal when it comes to speaking foreign languages.
I think if I recall a newspaper article from a previous census correctly, Irelands first and second languages are foreign; English, followed by Polish.
Ireland 0%
or this sub is just turning into a map porn fetish the last week
Is this self-reported? There are about 5 people in Spain that can speak English
‘He says in said language without any sense of irony’.
21.3% of Germans say they can’t speak a foreign language but will then speak English better than you can.
Including Irish I would say fewer than 10% can competently speak a second language
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I assume it means non-official languages of each country, so anything other than English or Irish. But you’re right, it’s badly phrased.
By that logic you can also say that the English also speak a foreign language as Germanic settlers in the 6th century displaced Britonic Celtic as the main language with Anglo Saxon (Old English)
Sure nearly 100% of Ireland speaks a foreign language.
Wow so edgy.
The native language of this land is a foreign language for most of us.