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    1. myeye95 on

      Slovaks counted Czech as another language.

      – Dobrý deň.

      – Promiňte, ale nerozumím slovensky.

      – Dobrý den.

      – Á, dobrý den! Jak se máte?

    3. curialbellic on

      How is Spain only 54% when we have regional languages? I literally don’t know anyone who only speaks one language.

    5. Danex36 on

      That must be fake. In Poland almost everyone under 40-50 speaks English and if they’re older they’re very likely to speak russian, because they had to learn it till 1990. Can’t believe it’s that low. That probably goes for the rest of eastern Europe

    7. matchuhuki on

      I’ve not met a Belgian that isn’t at least bilingual. Either they’re young and they speak English + Dutch/French or they’re old and they speak Dutch + French. Or they live in the German part and speak German + French

    9. mihai_necula on

      It’s just another shitty map that tries to paint West is smart, East is stupid

    10. Ok-Cut3951 on

      All those immigrants refusing to speak Dutch I bet, all Dutchies I know speak enough English to be able to get by abroad.

    11. WinHour4300 on

      Lol love how the UK has literally been disappeared on the map into the ocean, but this post is in English. Can we have our language back too then please? Everyone to French?

      Also, if I’m allowed to contribute, „I don’t speak much English“ ranges from
      – the Germans (speaks better English than the English), 
      – the French (speaks very good English just doesn’t want to unless you try to order in French) 
      – Someone who actually isn’t fluent in English, believes they can, and ends up writing EU regulations…

      So frankly this map is pretty meaningless. 

    12. Common_Noise on

      Over 90% of people in the netherlands speak dutch. This map is clearly wrong.

    17. AckerHerron on

      Ireland number is definitely boosted by people who say they speak Irish, but haven’t used it since school and would struggle to string a sentence together if put on the spot.

    18. shadowdance55 on

      Croatia will very much depend on what we count as „foreign languages“.

    20. bad-intention on

      Define “speaks”: I wouldn’t consider myself a speaker at the A1, A2, or B1 level (even early B2 is a stretch).

    21. simonbleu on

      I would like it to be discriminated for

      – Other local languages (local or not)

      – Languages of bordering countries

      – English

      Specially the first and last

    23. DafyddWillz on

      Latvia & Lithuania being significantly higher than Denmark & the Netherlands definitely wasn’t on my bingo card, interesting

    24. Imaginary-One6734 on

      I lived in Spain and you can die on the streets if you don’t speak Spanish…so I don’t understand why so high on top

    25. Embarrassed-Wolf-609 on

      gonna need to see the receipts for Czechia and spain, cuz most czechs i’ve envountered only speaks Czech. and no, slovak doesn’t count as a second language

    28. the_woolfie on

      How can Romania be lowest when there are millions of ethnic minority who speak romanian and some other language?

    29. Repinoleto on

      Allow me to doubt these data. Here in Spain, between the regions that have their own official languages and everyone who speaks English or another language, even if they’re few across the country, there are surely more than that 54%.

    30. ShieldofGondor on

      I’m from Belgium. We have three national languages. I highly doubt we reach only 78%.

    31. pothkan on

      Hungary always baffles me. If you’re Slavic, you can always kind of communicate with other Slavs (not you Bulgarians, sorry), even without knowledge of that language. But Hungarian is pretty much isolated. How do Hungarians talk with neighbours when visiting abroad?

    35. FlaviusStilicho on

      Looks like Sweden has taken Copenhagen from Denmark… when did that happen?

    36. ubernerder on

      Slovakia always ends up in the top tier because they count Czech as a foreign language. For example Dutch and Flemmish have similar regional differences, and some of them are pretty difficult, almost impossible to understand (I am Dutch).

      Counting Czech and Slovak, just as Serb, Croats, Bosnian and Montenegrin, resp. Romanian and Moldavian as separate languages are purely small-minded ethno-political decisions. Nothing more, nothing less.

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