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| Antanas Tetraglot Groupie Lithuania Joined 4599 days ago 91 posts - 172 votes  Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Russian, German Studies: FrenchB1, Spanish | Message 33 of 34 29 July 2014 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
No, it's the Dutch (29% vs. 19% in UK). Although it's only the "third" foreign language for them. Too bad for them that they know English and German that good. And I bet that the Flemish are even better at it. Look at the maps dedicated to the knowledge of individual languages. One has to look at those that indicate the percentages and not at those that show those abstract places. The same is with the knowledge of English. For instance, Lithuanians (38%, the worst ones among the Baltic nations) claim to know English almost as good as the Frenchmen (39%) and better than the majority of the so-called Central Eastern Europeans (except Slovenia (59%) and Southern Europeans (except Greece (51%)). But it turns out, alas, that English is only the second best known foreign language in Lithuania. It's ironic that the same is the case with Slovenia, the absolute champion of the knowledge of English among the new EU members. Edited by Antanas on 29 July 2014 at 6:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 5871 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 34 of 34 29 October 2014 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
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LOL@ the most "spoken" foreign language in Slovakia being Czech. In fact, most Slovaks cannot speak Czech. They can understand the language, but are very far from speaking it. Speaking and understanding are two different things, so that's why the map is inaccurate for Slovakia.
PS: I actually do speak both Czech and Slovak, but that's due to my family history and also having lived extensively in both Prague and Bratislava... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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