I’m not sure what you think you’re going to prove by point out one example (which you yourself describe as being a comparatively isolated country). The total p

I’m not sure what you think you’re going to prove by point out one example (which you yourself describe as being a comparatively isolated country). The total population of multilingual people is obviously quite hard to measure. But every study I’ve seen has put it above 50% of the worlds population, with English being the most common second language choice. EU stats on Poland say 1/4 of its population speak a second language well enough to hold a conversation, with the most popular languages being English, German and Russian, in that order. https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf#page14 https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/...