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Re:France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decl... by wannabag on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:44AM (#21710847)
I have a similar background and the wealth of the content that's not in English is incredible and often missed.

From an outsider perspective, the time it took for British media and the political class to take note of the European sentiment on the issue of brexit was around 1 year. It was as if they just found out there was an non-English web out there..

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Re:France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decl... by raverbashing on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:57AM (#21710885)
Yes, if countrie's abilities to speak English are lower than what would be ideal, proficiency of any other language in English speaking countries is abysmal.

Maybe the US has a higher number, but a lot of those are due to family, not to education.

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