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		mbesto on April 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Agony of an African programmer FYI - Another one I learned while being in Europe is FIGS, which sort of represents the "more economically developed" Euro languages - French, Italian, German, Spanish. This pretty much covers every nation you would need to speak to in order to do legitimate business in Europe. (Scandinavia generally will do business with English speakers)

w1ntermute on April 7, 2014 [–]

The Germans are pretty solid English speakers too. More so than the French, Italians, or Spaniards, anyway.

pjmlp on April 7, 2014 | [–]

I live in Germany, good luck trying to speak English outside the big cities or people with lower levels of education.

Thankfully it doesn't matter to me as I speak the language fluently.

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