Dutch are the most proficient English speakers in the world

The Dutch are the most proficient English speakers in the world, a global study of English skills has found.

Swedish education company used an online language proficiency test to rank countries where English is not the most spoken language. They tested 2.3 million people across the world.

See the full study here

France improved its position in this year’s report, but Spain and Italy fall behind the rest of the EU, the report says, a finding consistent with other reports. Of the Eurozone’s four largest economies, only Germany “speaks English well”.

Sweden, Norway and Denmark followed the Netherlands as having the top English skills in the world.

However, those who took the test were “self-selected” in that they were people interested in learning English or curious about their language skills.

The entire format was also online and tested reading and listening skills.

Via Euronews