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| krotox Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 5051 days ago 14 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2 Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 02 November 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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What do you think about these results?
More details I'm kind of surprise that Poland is that high in the ranking. Edited by krotox on 02 November 2012 at 2:01pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 2 of 4 02 November 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess we read the same article on GW site. I'm also surprised.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 02 November 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | ||
I found the following pair of rankings surprising:
Granted, my experience with Italy ended in 1993, and my experience with France started around 2003. I also know more university-educated people in France than I did in Italy. But I remember that English speakers were surprisingly hard to find in Italy, even in the tourist industry, whereas plenty of people in France could manage something between A2 and B2 English when necessary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 4 08 November 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
I was in Siena last week and there were plenty of people who spoke (at least some) English. If they spoke first then they generally seemed to speak in English (unless you didn't look like a tourist I guess). The level of the English varied quite a bit. I'll admit that neither the hotel proprietor nor one car park attendant seemed to speak any English, but most others seemed to (at least they did when I was wearing a haversack ...). Mind you, Siena is a pretty popular tourist destination (as is Firenze, which we also visited), so that might have skewed the results. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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