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krotox
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Poland
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 Message 1 of 4
02 November 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged 
What do you think about these results?

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I'm kind of surprise that Poland is that high in the ranking.

Edited by krotox on 02 November 2012 at 2:01pm

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Gosiak
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Poland
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02 November 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged 
I guess we read the same article on GW site. I'm also surprised.
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emk
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 Message 3 of 4
02 November 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged 
I found the following pair of rankings surprising:

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Moderate proficiency
Rank     Country

23     France
24     Italy


Granted, my experience with Italy ended in 1993, and my experience with France started around 2003. I also know more university-educated people in France than I did in Italy.

But I remember that English speakers were surprisingly hard to find in Italy, even in the tourist industry, whereas plenty of people in France could manage something between A2 and B2 English when necessary.
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dampingwire
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08 November 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged 
emk wrote:

But I remember that English speakers were surprisingly hard to find in Italy, even in
the tourist industry, whereas plenty of people in France could manage something between
A2 and B2 English when necessary.


I was in Siena last week and there were plenty of people who spoke (at least some)
English. If they spoke first then they generally seemed to speak in English (unless you
didn't look like a tourist I guess). The level of the English varied quite a bit. I'll
admit that neither the hotel proprietor nor one car park attendant seemed to speak any
English, but most others seemed to (at least they did when I was wearing a haversack
...).

Mind you, Siena is a pretty popular tourist destination (as is Firenze, which we also
visited), so that might have skewed the results.



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