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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
English is a second language in pretty much all scandinavian countries now, Poland, Slovenia, Czechia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland are about 65% english speaking now so lots of eastern euros are taking on english.
Italy is weird, they love western culture but don't want to learn the language, from all accounts only about 30% know english. Even more weird is to the south the island nation of Malta is about 90% english speaking
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What I've been told by Dutch/Danish/Norweigian/Sweedish people is that they don't get many books, movies, or T.V. shows translated into their natural language so they have more incentive to actually learn English. Movies are T.V are subtitled as opposed to dubbed over. Whereas larger countries like France/Germany/Itay/Spain/Russia get all this translated. So the people are less inclined to learn how to converse in English.