Europe's English Skills

https://jlai.lu/post/28459209

Was curious how Belgium would score by language region.

Seems the Flemish part scores higher than The Netherlands while Wallonia drags everything down.

Fairly unsurprising. English is literally harder if your native language is a romance language than if it is a germanic language. Same is true for germanic native speakers who try to learn a romance language.

As a native English speaker, I don’t know the language rules in English, I merely speak the language. I suppose the idea is that I can think with the same grammer in English as I can in Dutch or German (except when I can’t) than with romance languages.

But at the same time, I feel like the Spanish language, is a fairly easy language for non native speakers to learn. It’s phonetical, it’s logical, it doesn’t have ridiculous numbers or times for the clock.

But at the same time, I feel like the Spanish language, is a fairly easy language for non native speakers to learn. It’s phonetical, it’s logical, it doesn’t have ridiculous numbers or times for the clock.

I tried learning Spanish in school for about six years. IDK, maybe other languages would be even harder, but I found it pretty hard, especially understanding spoken Spanish.