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I looked this up to make sure [0]; it's true, and the countries with a "very high" proficiency are: 01 Netherlands 02 Denmark 03 Sweden 04 Norw
by sarabande 9y ago
I looked this up to make sure [0]; it's true, and the countries with a "very high" proficiency are:
01 Netherlands
02 Denmark
03 Sweden
04 Norway
05 Finland
06 Singapore
07 Luxembourg
0: http://www.ef.com/epi/?mc=we http://www.ef.com/epi/?mc=we
- Geekette 9y agoI question the validity of "global" rankings that don't include regions like East, West or South Africa, where countries like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa have very high English proficiency rates (especially given that it's also an/the official language in most cases).
- oblio 9y agoI think the point of those ranking is ESL. So if English is an official language, you're out ;)
- darklajid 9y agoThen Singapore doesn't belong on that list.
- Chris2048 9y agoUK and Ireland not there either.
- adventured 9y agoIt's a list of nations in which English is not the first or primary language (which is why Australia and New Zealand are also not listed).
- Iv 9y agoNote also that fields are not all equal. In France I used to complain about the lack of English skills but I never found a programmer who could not at least read English and most business people will be able to communicate, maybe with a strong accent. Now I live in Japan and most programmers I meet do not speak English at all (leading them to be pretty poor programmers). Proficiency is not equally distributed.
- gog 9y agoWell, it is hard being a programmer if you do not even read English :)
- Iv 9y agoYep. They have Japanese translations of all documentations. They put comments in Japanese in their programs. I don't know if it is the sole factor but it probably explain partly why there is so little good Japanese software.