Reeves: “Sometimes it’s an advantage to be last in Europe”

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Kyros said:

I recon you don't travel a lot. ... Even in norway and sweden, many people, (i would recon like 50/50)

???? I can assure you I have traveled a lot in Europe (Paris/Madrid/Stockholm/Trondheim/Oslo/Amsterdam/Budapest/Prague ... just out of my head)

And the only countries where I had to ask more than 2 people to find someone who understands English was Spain (NOBODY speaks English in Spain)

I mean I would have understood it if you would have said France where people sometimes pretend that they do not understand English (yes they are a bit annoying but pretty cool if you get to know them) but Scandinavia?

I was in Stockholm a couple months ago and EVERYONE speaks English there. I mean come on most TV channels were in English often even without subtitles. So I do not know where you have been in Sweden but I cannot support your statement.

 

 I was in Oslo and Stockholm this year and, regarding what you're saying there's only 3 possibilities:

1- You are wrong
2- You are correct and i'm an unlucky prick who got to cross paths with the only 100 or so people who dont speak english in sweden and norway.
3- We're both partially correct, but you missed my point that speaking is equal to sustain conversation, not saying a couple of phrases you hear on TV.

Here in Portugal almost every series is in english but most of the portuguese only know how to say "hello. how do you do?". Add something of mild dificulty to the mix and that's enough to put them staring at you. Except in algarve i recon, since there's almost the same ammount of english speaking people than portuguese speaking this time of the year.