In the U.K. all those people that speak multiple languages are all foreigners
I’m often astounded when meeting Finns who speak 3, 4, 5 languages.
What 3 do the finns speak? English, Swedish and Russian/German?
What level of proficiency counts as “knowing a language” for the purpose of this study?
I wonder what the US percentage is, by state…
Ah, yes. Another map of honesty
Half of Finns speak ~~5~~ 3 foreign languages or more? Can anyone be dense enough to believe this?
Actually thought Luxembourg would be higher.
Lol bro these posts gotta stop. No one believes this shit
Cyprus is the New Zealand of European maps
Lol no. I actually speak 3 foreign languages. I met like 3 other people here who also can do it.
It’s very rare to meet Danes who speak amything except English as a foreign language. They’re usually langiage teachers.
They are counting that you can say una cerveza por favor and nothing more as mastering a language 😉
I know Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and English lol
Am I right that Slovakia is so different because Slovaks speak Czech and Czechs do not speak Slovak?
>The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German.
You’re telling me about a quarter of Belgians speak 3 languages that are not one of those?
Well, I know Russian (my native language), English and Ukrainian
Norwegians be like: Yea sure, i speak Swedish, Danish and English
There’s no way the percentage is only 0.9% in Romania. Most people under the age of 40 speak english. At least 20% of romanians live abroad. Italian, spanish and french are natural languages to learn and understand.
Most girls speak italian, spanish and portuguese pretty good because they watch telenovela
Even I, who put zero effort in learning spanish, can watch TV and understand most of the things. Almost the same for italian. For french, I can fully understand a written text, but I can’t follow a conversation.
So 4 or more languages in total or is the labelling wrong here?
I know Romanian, English and Moldavian, does it count?
The one thing we might be actually be good at, and we aren’t even shown on the map! Almost 100% of Maltese people can speak both Maltese and English, and surveys show that around 66% of us can speak Italian too (it is an easy language to learn for us, since we get Italian TV channels here). Plus French is popular in school too, although it is not spoken in the same level as Italian.
North Macedonia is cheating
I speak Spanish, Arabic, English and Catalan. But I can easily understand written French but I don’t think it counts
Finland is already bi-lingual and then you add in all the immigrants… and then the number of English speakers, you get high tri-lingual figures.
Croatia should be higher. They know Croatian, Bosnian, AND Serbian.
What constitutes a polyglot? Do you have to be fluent in multiple languages, or just speak at a remedial level?
I expected a higher percent for Romania. 6% of the population is Hungarian, almost all of them speak Romanian, many should also know English or Russian or German
when does one “know” a language, bc depending on the definition i am at 3-5 languages and does one count british/american/australian english and other examples, bc then i am at 20
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro should be more red. They know 4 languages just to start with Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
The initial zoom here made me read that as 5 foreign languages, and I immediately called bullshit on Denmark’s percentage. 3 languages is vastly more believable, but still unexpectedly high I think.
English is a given, a significant percentage (possibly 1/4) would also probably know one of German, French or Spanish, add to that immigrants who speak their own native language on top of that, but I can’t imagine that gets us there.
Then again, culturally we don’t tend to encourage braggadocious tendencies, so maybe if a person does speak that many languages, they don’t tend to bring it up in conversation. I mean, I wouldn’t know, they don’t bring it up in conversation.
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Link: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Foreign_language_skills_statistics#Number_of_foreign_languages_known
What % of each country speak English?
In the U.K. all those people that speak multiple languages are all foreigners
I’m often astounded when meeting Finns who speak 3, 4, 5 languages.
What 3 do the finns speak? English, Swedish and Russian/German?
What level of proficiency counts as “knowing a language” for the purpose of this study?
I wonder what the US percentage is, by state…
Ah, yes. Another map of honesty
Half of Finns speak ~~5~~ 3 foreign languages or more? Can anyone be dense enough to believe this?
Actually thought Luxembourg would be higher.
Lol bro these posts gotta stop. No one believes this shit
Cyprus is the New Zealand of European maps
Lol no. I actually speak 3 foreign languages. I met like 3 other people here who also can do it.
It’s very rare to meet Danes who speak amything except English as a foreign language. They’re usually langiage teachers.
They are counting that you can say una cerveza por favor and nothing more as mastering a language 😉
I know Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and English lol
Am I right that Slovakia is so different because Slovaks speak Czech and Czechs do not speak Slovak?
>The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German.
You’re telling me about a quarter of Belgians speak 3 languages that are not one of those?
Well, I know Russian (my native language), English and Ukrainian
Norwegians be like: Yea sure, i speak Swedish, Danish and English
There’s no way the percentage is only 0.9% in Romania. Most people under the age of 40 speak english. At least 20% of romanians live abroad. Italian, spanish and french are natural languages to learn and understand.
Most girls speak italian, spanish and portuguese pretty good because they watch telenovela
Even I, who put zero effort in learning spanish, can watch TV and understand most of the things. Almost the same for italian. For french, I can fully understand a written text, but I can’t follow a conversation.
So 4 or more languages in total or is the labelling wrong here?
I know Romanian, English and Moldavian, does it count?
The one thing we might be actually be good at, and we aren’t even shown on the map! Almost 100% of Maltese people can speak both Maltese and English, and surveys show that around 66% of us can speak Italian too (it is an easy language to learn for us, since we get Italian TV channels here). Plus French is popular in school too, although it is not spoken in the same level as Italian.
North Macedonia is cheating
I speak Spanish, Arabic, English and Catalan. But I can easily understand written French but I don’t think it counts
Finland is already bi-lingual and then you add in all the immigrants… and then the number of English speakers, you get high tri-lingual figures.
Croatia should be higher. They know Croatian, Bosnian, AND Serbian.
What constitutes a polyglot? Do you have to be fluent in multiple languages, or just speak at a remedial level?
I expected a higher percent for Romania. 6% of the population is Hungarian, almost all of them speak Romanian, many should also know English or Russian or German
when does one “know” a language, bc depending on the definition i am at 3-5 languages and does one count british/american/australian english and other examples, bc then i am at 20
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro should be more red. They know 4 languages just to start with Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
The initial zoom here made me read that as 5 foreign languages, and I immediately called bullshit on Denmark’s percentage. 3 languages is vastly more believable, but still unexpectedly high I think.
English is a given, a significant percentage (possibly 1/4) would also probably know one of German, French or Spanish, add to that immigrants who speak their own native language on top of that, but I can’t imagine that gets us there.
Then again, culturally we don’t tend to encourage braggadocious tendencies, so maybe if a person does speak that many languages, they don’t tend to bring it up in conversation. I mean, I wouldn’t know, they don’t bring it up in conversation.
What the hell do I know…