English proficiency index

[Leshma]

It's a good thing I learned a bit Italiano in past six months.

[Radament]

It's a good thing I learned a bit Italiano in past six months.

you did good , even our prime minister is quite poor in english but  the scary fact is a good 30% of the population don't even know italian very well .

the good thing is we can cook the best pizzas in the world 

[Simon_Belmont]

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English proficiency index - it's supposed to be the world's largest ranking of English skills. And has some weird numbers, Poland better than Belgium and Germany, RUssia better than Italy. Ruskies speak english?

I'd say the average japanese's english is really choppy, not sure how it's just in the mediocre list. But if the charts say so, I guess I'll trust them.

[Umbra]

How was this chrat made?

[Kafein]

It would be funny to put the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in that list.

[Oberyn]

How was this chart made?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index#Methodology

Methodology
The EF EPI third edition was calculated using test data from 750,000 test takers in 2012. The test takers were self-selected and no demographic information was collected on them. The tests are used by the company for marketing and placement purposes. 58 countries and 2 territories appear in the third edition of the index. In order to be included a country was required to have at least 400 test takers total.

400 self-selected (not to mention no demographic information, so might not even be representative of the country concerned in the first place) is not exactly a reliable sample in my opinion. The self-selected part in particular is kiss of death as far as I'm concerned.

Still, seems relatively accurate, despite the methodology fails.

[darmaster]

How was this chrat made?

stereotypes, which are accurate

[LordBerenger]

No Philippines in top 20, wtf? It's their second official language.

Guessing countries like Phillipines, England, US etc... are not in this because of what languages they have as offical languages.

[Umbra]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index#Methodology

400 self-selected (not to mention no demographic information, so might not even be representative of the country concerned in the first place) is not exactly a reliable sample in my opinion. The self-selected part in particular is kiss of death as far as I'm concerned.

Still, seems relatively accurate, despite the methodology fails.

So Croatian data wasnt even taken. Thanks Obama

[Daunt_Flockula]

India ranks 21st? Rubbish list. I would say they should be like 100th or so. English is seemingly an official language to them, but it is literally a pain in the ass to listen to an Indian dude and successfully understand what the hell he is trying to say. I remember a recent encounter where the guy was trying to say "first table" and I swear on me mum it sounded like nothing but "fast evil".

[DonNicko]

Ruskies speak english?

-Hello
-Hello
-How are you?
-I'm fine and you?
-I'm too, good bye
-Bye

[Butan]

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It did need to be do.

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Gotta represent the 35th place.

[lombardsoup]

Put an mspaint write in for the US at #61

USA USA

[IR_Kuoin]

Norway may be second on the list, but we also got the worst accent.

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

no america

why even bother reading