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    EF hat seinen Englischkompetenzbericht für 2025 veröffentlicht

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    3. akurgo on

      Woah, Germany has definitely improved. Southern Europe too.

      But don’t be a wuss, include UK in the survey!

    5. smallushandus on

      Page 46 in the report:

      >Sampling Biases

      >The test-taking population represented
      in this Index is self-selected and not
      guaranteed to be representative. Only those
      who want to learn English or are curious
      about their English skills will participate in
      one of these tests. This could skew scores
      lower or higher than those of the general
      population.

      >The EF SET is free and online, so anyone
      with an Internet connection can participate.
      Almost all of our test takers are working
      adults or young adults finishing their
      studies. People without Internet access
      would be automatically excluded. The EF
      SET site is fully adaptive and 46% of test
      takers in 2024 completed the exam from
      a mobile device. In parts of the world
      where Internet usage is low, we would
      expect the impact of an online format to be
      strong. This sampling bias would tend to
      pull scores upward by excluding poorer and
      less educated people, and those living in
      areas with little or no Internet connectivity.
      Nevertheless, open access online tests
      have proven effective in gathering very
      large amounts of data about a range of
      indicators, and we believe they provide
      valuable information about global English
      proficiency levels.

      Edit: Just to add to the context, the test take 50 or 90 minutes to complete so it requires some dedication. See here: https://www.efset.org

    8. Wooden_Grocery_2482 on

      Did a roadtrip to Czechia through Poland. In Poland surprisingly often they didn’t speak English so I had to speak Russian with a faux Polish accent. Granted I was both in big cities but also countryside, so maybe not too surprising. But in Czechia everyone I spoke to had great English skills. At least in Prague and Brno. Maybe not so in other towns.

    9. bbbbbbbbbblah on

      Where’s the UK and Ireland smh.

      (yes this is slightly sarcastic, though it’d be interesting to know where they would rank)

    10. Excellent-Cap-7931 on

      Turk from turkey living in turkey here- this is definitely false- no turk outside of a small minority can speak English worth a damn, it should be lower.

    12. Hairy_Friendship3735 on

      I’m from Spain and I confirm the Portuguese proficiency in English. I wish that was our case…

    13. Yasuchika on

      Not an excuse to not learn the language of the country if you move there, btw. Tired of being spoken to in english when I’m out and about.

    14. CaptainCymru on

      Flanders in Belgium scored highest as a region (654), highest region in Netherlands is Overijssel (642), but Walloonia brought down the Belgian average (543).

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