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That citation is for "English as a foreign language", and if you read the end of the paragraph you see they are excluding UK and Ireland. English as a first la
by robinson7d 9y ago
That citation is for "English as a foreign language", and if you read the end of the paragraph you see they are excluding UK and Ireland.
English as a first language accounts for 13%, which when added to the 38% leaves you with 51% (or, "most")
http://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/e... (Cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union#Knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...)