Re:The Brexit hangover has left UK startups drained – Are th...
by cm2187 on Saturday July 09, 2016 @12:22PM
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If by multilingual you meaning speaking english in addition to their mother tongue, I agree. If by multilingual you mean speaking fluently another non english language I disagree, only a small minority do. Particularly in a population of technical people (since we are taking about start ups).
Re:The Brexit hangover has left UK startups drained – Are th...
by TillE on Saturday July 09, 2016 @01:01PM
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In my experience, even educated young urban Germans are mostly not actually fluent (C2) in English. They can just about hold a conversation (probably B2). Many of them speak French only a little worse than that.
Either way, they'd need to learn more if they wanted to have a normal life in an English-speaking country.
Language I can see, but then the German Abitur has a requirement of 2 foreign languages, with potentially 3 (English/French, French/Latin, last one depending on what the school offers, usually Spanish/Italian/I think Russian in NE/sometimes Chinese). Some of these languages are substantially similar, which further widens the field, e.g., a French speaker might transition to Italian easily.
A fair number of Europeans are ridiculously multilingual.