It feels like they tanked the test out of spite. I’m curious about the methodology of the study, but France has far too much tourism to believe this without seeing the underlying data.
This is why this completely unsupported graphic on the internet seems unreliable to me. If you want to quibble about WHY one shouldn’t believe a completely unsupported graphic on the internet…okay.
I mean have you ever been a tourist in France? I went to Paris last year and I would have been lost without google translate. The french expect even the tourists to just learn their language.
It’s kinda sick that they label everything in French to make it easy to learn the language. I visit France and Nederland as often as I can, and to be fair, even the Dutch don’t label everything in English; the people just speak it super well.
As a German, I can read a lot of Dutch writing. Some words are seriously funny, and the accent is cute, but I usually get the gist. If not, I can always ask in English (in the western parts) or German (in the eastern parts). I can attest that the Dutch are seriously good with English.
I think that most of this is due to TV and cinema, as everything foreign is English with Dutch subtitles, except maybe for the children’s TV.
Native English speaker here, but spoke French with my father’s family about 1/2 the time: I can read and pronounce Dutch well enough that my Dutch friends understand what I’m saying (we’ve laughed about it a few times when I was unaware of a few of the weird dipthongs they have). I can’t understand nearly anything I’m saying or reading.
It feels like they tanked the test out of spite. I’m curious about the methodology of the study, but France has far too much tourism to believe this without seeing the underlying data.
?? Japan has a lot of tourism and you’d be hard pressed to find a Japanese person that can speak English proficiently
Do you think that someone should believe a graphic on the internet without verifying the information from a reputable source?
No but the amount of tourism a country gets does not correlate to the English fluency of the average citizen of that country.
shrug
This is why this completely unsupported graphic on the internet seems unreliable to me. If you want to quibble about WHY one shouldn’t believe a completely unsupported graphic on the internet…okay.
I mean have you ever been a tourist in France? I went to Paris last year and I would have been lost without google translate. The french expect even the tourists to just learn their language.
It’s kinda sick that they label everything in French to make it easy to learn the language. I visit France and Nederland as often as I can, and to be fair, even the Dutch don’t label everything in English; the people just speak it super well.
As a German, I can read a lot of Dutch writing. Some words are seriously funny, and the accent is cute, but I usually get the gist. If not, I can always ask in English (in the western parts) or German (in the eastern parts). I can attest that the Dutch are seriously good with English.
I think that most of this is due to TV and cinema, as everything foreign is English with Dutch subtitles, except maybe for the children’s TV.
Native English speaker here, but spoke French with my father’s family about 1/2 the time: I can read and pronounce Dutch well enough that my Dutch friends understand what I’m saying (we’ve laughed about it a few times when I was unaware of a few of the weird dipthongs they have). I can’t understand nearly anything I’m saying or reading.