Section 1. Guidelines for reading texts on the use of English in European education

People from Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland speak English more fluently compared to people from, say, France, Italy or Czech Republic.

What are the secrets or those nations' fluent English? Is it because the children at school learn English at a younger age, as compared to the rest of Europe? Do they have better English education systems at schools?

Finns are amongst the best English speakers in Europe. If you are travelling to Finland and do not speak Finnish, you'll have no problems getting help if you need it in English. Everyone but the old and very young can at least understand English, if not speak it. Even though English is a foreign language here, it is widely taught at schools and thus most people speak and understand English. About 90% of Finns think that the importance of English will increase in the next 20 years and almost half (47%) of them are of the opinion that in the future everyone must know English.

Many Finns think that the lack of English proficiency leads to marginalization in certain areas of life. When they were asked to indicate the areas in which this is a danger, the most common answer to this (86%) was that Finns with no English skills will be excluded from international interaction. At the same time, nearly half of the Finns (44%) indicated that marginalization is not really a serious threat because, in their view, up-to-date information will be available also in Finnish in the future.

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