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[marginalia_nu]

A decent proportion of young Scandinavians speak English. Not all of them, and it definitely doesn't extend as a generality to older people.

[benatkin → marginalia_nu]

Eh. That isn't what the comment you replied to is saying. It's enough that it easily puts it with some of the other places that are highlighted as English.

The site says "enter the languages you speak below to see with how many parts of the world you can communicate". Quite misleading.

[readthenotes1 → benatkin]

This is exactly what I came in to come in about. English is a second language is learned in many places, whether from school, business, movies, or song,

[petesergeant → marginalia_nu]

From Wikipedia[0]:

Norway: 90%; Sweden: 90%; Denmark 86%.

This is higher than Canada and a number of Anglophone Caribbean islands. Admittedly Finland is lagging at 75%, but we can also consider Iceland at 98%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

[marginalia_nu → petesergeant]

I'd seriously call those numbers into question (living in Sweden). Maybe 90% are at an A1 or A2 level.

I'd say maybe 50% are fluent, and that's heavily slanted toward the younger side of the population curve.

[vogon_laureate → marginalia_nu]

Yeah my Swedish ex’s family couldn’t speak hardly any English.