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Originally Posted by Seahawk
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Interesting map although I'm a little surprised by the percentage of
Frenchmen that can speak English, a huge amount of trade goes on
through the chunnel, I was expecting a much higher percentage.
As for the others, I'm not surprised. All the Germanic speaking countries
(Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the
Netherlands) and former British Colonies (The Malta and Cyprus) all
have higher percentages than the rest of Europe.
Finland having a high percentage is expected since they have the best
education system on the planet but I'm not too sure why Slovenia has a
higher percentage.
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As for the number of languages spoken, Italy should have way more since
different Italian provinces have different languages due to be divided
until the 19th century.
Germany is similar, particularly between the North Germans and the
Bavarians/Austrians but the difference isn't as severe.
The Three Baltic Countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) all have a
large amount of minority languages they've been trying to stomp out.
But as they were part of the USSR, a large chunk still speak Russian.