English as lingua franca English language in Europe



english commonly spoken foreign language in 19 out of 25 european union countries (excluding uk , ireland) in eu25, working knowledge of english foreign language leading @ 38%, followed german , french (at 14% each), russian , spanish (at 6% each), , italian (3%). knowledge of english particularly high in malta (52%), denmark (44%), cyprus (42%) , sweden (40%).


working knowledge varies lot between european countries. high in malta, cyprus , denmark low in russia, spain (12%), hungary (14%) , slovakia (14%). on average in 2012, 38% of citizens of european union (excluding united kingdom , ireland) stated have sufficient knowledge of english have conversation in language.








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