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Re:The Brexit hangover has left UK startups drained – Are th... by cm2187 on Saturday July 09, 2016 @12:22PM (#12061994)
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).
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Re:The Brexit hangover has left UK startups drained – Are th... by TillE on Saturday July 09, 2016 @01:01PM (#12062219)
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.

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