Almeno rispetto ad altri paesi di lingua tedesca.
Ho sempre pensato che gli svizzeri fossero più bravi con le lingue dei loro vicini tedeschi, dato che non hanno problemi a pronunciare molto bene il francese o l’italiano. Io sono svizzero e tedesco e ho una buona pronuncia anche in inglese.
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di Tashunka030
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Remember, we’re about 25% French.
Hard to believe
Don’t trust any source
Because the priority, until very recently, was learning another or two other national languages rather than English. It also depends where you are though, in most cities basically everyone speaks English quite well.
Think about pronunciation. Think about how we pronounce German. It’s ridiculous. It’s almost the same with english.
English usually our 3rd or 4th language…
I suppose we just don’t really care. Learning a second national language is already hard enough.
The methodology from wikipedia shows a likely self selection bias:
The EF EPI 2023 edition was calculated using test data from 2.1 million test takers in 2022. The test takers were self-selected. In order to be included, a country was required to have at least 400 test takers.
This is done by an online proficiency test put together by a chain of private language schools, EF English First. They don’t exactly have rocket scientists working for them.
Because English is not a national language and the focus at school is on the national languages. But it used to be even worse, my parents, for example, never had English lessons at school
It’s hard to believe honestly, but my experience might just be circumstantial. I grew up in Geneva, most of my friends and I sucked at English in our teenage years… but many of us are decent at English now as adults. I live in the States now, so my English is excellent.
I have yet to hear a Dutch guy speak English in an accent which doesn’t completely ruin and undermine everything they’re saying.
Having that said, the Dutch do have an excellent knowledge of the English language!
And I mean post could be right! I’m from Switzerland, living in Belgium (next to the Netherlands). English is at a really high level in these parts! My Swiss family members speak English significantly less fluently when compared to the average Belgian high-school student.
>the EF EPI is based on test data from more than 2,200,000 test takers around the world who took the EF Standard English Test (EF SET) or one of our English placement tests in 2022.
The index doesn’t test English proficiency of a country’s population. It tests English proficiency of the people who take the test by this private company to document their proficiency.
A country scoring high means that many people who are very proficient took the test, presumably to prove or verify their already blatantly obvious proficiency.
Why the average proficiency among people who take this test in Switzerland is lower than in Austria, and higher than France, is probably more related to the reasons these people have for taking the test, than to the average proficiency of the population.
That should settle the question “I don’t speak German/French/Italian, can I get a job in Switzerland with only English?” once and for all.