{"id":42477,"date":"2014-06-10T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/finding-english-speakingish-countries-in-the-eu.html"},"modified":"2014-06-10T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T22:05:44","slug":"finding-english-speakingish-countries-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/finding-english-speakingish-countries-in-the-eu.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding English-speaking(ish) countries in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Actually, this is a pretty darned useful map.<\/p>\n<p>Note, of course, that the number will vary depending on where in the country you are and the nature of the person&#39;s employment; I would expect more hotel managers in Berlin to know how to converse in English than, say, lumberjacks in Norway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108048325630653551776'>Steve Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My experience is that the French number is higher &#8212; but the French won&#39;t tell you that. And the British figure is much lower. \ud83d\ude09<br \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23snarkasm\">#snarkasm<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Mf1GChdpT1Y\/U5cPNCxXDVI\/AAAAAAAAgO0\/IgCGFznKFyk\/tumblr_n6xzjpAPjI1s2jikwo1_1280.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4e7v2JaWeAe' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this is a pretty darned useful map. Note, of course, that the number will vary depending on where in the country you are and the nature of the person&#39;s employment; I would expect more hotel managers in Berlin to know how to converse in English than, say, lumberjacks in Norway.\u00a0 Reshared post from +Steve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/finding-english-speakingish-countries-in-the-eu.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding English-speaking(ish) countries in the EU&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,26,24],"tags":[586,628],"class_list":["post-42477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-travel","category-writing-and-language","tag-pluspost","tag-snarkasm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6xzjpAPjI1s2jikwo1_1280.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/18\/what_next_freed.html","url_meta":{"origin":42477,"position":0},"title":"What next, &#8220;Freedom Fries&#8221;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jul-03 1:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever-sensitive to non-French terms slipping into French, the government in Paris is banning e-mail. 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