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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2014, 02:03:00 pm »
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It's a good thing I learned a bit Italiano in past six months.

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2014, 02:16:33 pm »
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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 .

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2014, 02:49:31 pm »
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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.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2014, 02:50:17 pm »
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2014, 02:59:04 pm »
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It would be funny to put the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in that list.

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2014, 03:25:40 pm »
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How was this chart made?

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

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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.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2014, 03:30:21 pm »
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How was this chrat made?

stereotypes, which are accurate
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2014, 03:33:14 pm »
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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.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2014, 03:48:53 pm »
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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
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2014, 04:21:22 pm »
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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".

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2014, 04:27:02 pm »
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Ruskies speak english?
-Hello
-Hello
-How are you?
-I'm fine and you?
-I'm too, good bye
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2014, 05:11:29 pm »
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2014, 05:42:41 pm »
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Put an mspaint write in for the US at #61

USA USA

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2014, 05:47:21 pm »
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Norway may be second on the list, but we also got the worst accent.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2014, 05:55:36 pm »
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no america

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