EU Citizens "Linguistically Disenfranchised" By Prevalence Of English

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 14:50 in Mathematics & Economics

If you ask Europeans about the metric system, they declare America should get with the program because it is more popular. When it comes to speaking English, however, barely a third of the EU's 500 million citizens speak English yet that is how the business of the EU's 27 member countries is conducted.  No one is expected to speak 23 different languages. read more

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