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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not nearly as bad as we English-speakers have when it comes to speaking other languages. It's shocking how bad most of us are at speaking other languages.
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Isn't that a consequence of you not needing to learn other languages? Most people do speak a passable english, so you can survive with english quite nicely.
As for us, well, we can possibly use Swedish in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and parts of Finlad, but apart from that... We need a second language, and English beeing the only one we are required to learn in school it's no choice really.
Even though I took both french and german in school, I couldn't speak german or french if my life dependent on it today. Apart from a few phrases that is
