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Not at all. Germany is one of the most tech/dev friendly country, especially if you are outside web dev. I see a lot of C++ engineering opportunities there. If
by zerr 10y ago
Not at all. Germany is one of the most tech/dev friendly country, especially if you are outside web dev. I see a lot of C++ engineering opportunities there. If only it was an English speaking country, and they had a sun... (It's a shame that we don't have a good English speaking country in whole Europe...) ;)
- dav-id 10y agoI hear the English can speak English quite well
- dmoo 10y agoUs Irish also have some ability.
- T-A 10y agoYes, but then there is the "sun" part...
- Natanael_L 10y agoWe Swedes too, for that matter.
- astrange 10y agoI had the strangest problem with Swedes where they'd seem to speak perfect English, but repeatedly mishear me as saying something offensive and never stop to make sure. Actually I think I mentioned "cutting myself shaving" to someone and they apparently to this day believe I'm suicidal.
- Natanael_L 10y agoHaven't seen it myself, but I'm guessing it's a bit Dunning-Kruger effect + unwillingness to ask outright (the average Swede don't want to look silly, etc). While we have a significant exposure to English, few of us regularly have casual conversations with native English speakers, so our vocabularies aren't as good as we tend to think.
- noir_lord 10y agoAs an Englishman perhaps not as well as you would think.
- zerr 10y agoYes, when I watch some British TV shows I hear a lot of pronunciations I was taught was wrong in school.
- imtringued 10y agoBut it's not the same old english that mama used to speak...
- defen 10y agoMost Dutch people I've met speak better English than a good percentage of Americans...
- zerr 10y agoActually, they have quite an American accent. Because they watch a lot of American shows in original language, as they explain.
- gwildor 10y agoThis is true. Because we're such a small country, dubbing isn't viable (adding subtitles is cheaper). And I'm glad for it, because I can't stand dubbed things, but that might just be because I'm not so used to it.
- jventura 10y agoLisbon fulfills both your criteria: lots of sun and even kids learn English on the first year at school. I can surely bet that we speak better english than British people will ever speak Portuguese! :)
- zerr 10y agoThere is another strange thing in Europe: more sun ==> less salary ;)
- hawski 10y agoEnglish is one of the two official languages of Malta. I was thinking about this evergreen island myself, but it seems that they have mainly jobs with web dev and C#. I am now in Germany on C++ job and I don't now German that much.
- zerr 10y ago> about this evergreen island I'd say it is somewhat ever-yellow/red-ish :)