Sweden is one of the non-obvious countries (that being places that aren’t like… UK, USA, Australia, etc) that I would have expected to be on this map. So that makes sense that that they’re close, just not 90% or higher.
Although I’ve never been to Sweden, so admittedly my assumption wasn’t based on anything.
honestly it still feels a bit wrong that we don’t reach 90%, even my grandma could understand and probably stammer out the odd sentence if she had to, and everyone is exposed to english all the time.
I could imagine immigrant communities being a factor as well. I think there’s a wide range of English proficiency among people who are born abroad (at least that’s my impression from speaking to people studying Swedish). Given that we have a bit more immigration than Norway, that could definitely be a deciding factor.
(Maybe I’m just grasping at straws. Don’t wanna be losing to Norway, right?)
Sweden is one of the non-obvious countries (that being places that aren’t like… UK, USA, Australia, etc) that I would have expected to be on this map. So that makes sense that that they’re close, just not 90% or higher.
Although I’ve never been to Sweden, so admittedly my assumption wasn’t based on anything.
honestly it still feels a bit wrong that we don’t reach 90%, even my grandma could understand and probably stammer out the odd sentence if she had to, and everyone is exposed to english all the time.
I could imagine immigrant communities being a factor as well. I think there’s a wide range of English proficiency among people who are born abroad (at least that’s my impression from speaking to people studying Swedish). Given that we have a bit more immigration than Norway, that could definitely be a deciding factor.
(Maybe I’m just grasping at straws. Don’t wanna be losing to Norway, right?)