I went on exchange to Germany. Somehow there should be a ranking of the foreign language abilities of countries. There Germany would do incredibly well. It's

I went on exchange to Germany. Somehow there should be a ranking of the foreign language abilities of countries. There Germany would do incredibly well. It's strange that people obsess over math school rankings, but how many people do calculus beyond their schooling where as many, many people use a foreign language often in their work. It's a non-BS thing people can learn at school and something that Northern Europeans do spectacularly well at.