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Re:EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working langua... by afiori on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:15AM (#20030211)
Because if you live in a country for 8 years you are bound to encounter limits in where English can support you. Police, hospitals, local doctors, local elections, bureaucracy, food label and shops, information notice and warnings, verbose street sign for road works and many more.
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Re:EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working langua... by jacquesm on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:42PM (#20035128)
Doctors police and just about everybody else here speaks English, street signs are unified across the EU, road works you might get stumped but many navigators will deal with that just fine.

A friend of mine has lived in NL for 3 decades now and still does not speak Dutch, I'm sure he's an exception but he does not seem in any way hindered by this particular inability.

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