France, again from experience, doesn't seem to have that much of a push for other languages, and, thus, they aren't very good at other languages, although most people can speak at least one other language. Mostly English and German; Italian by the coast. I think that I’m pretty typical. How many languages does the average person in your country speak? Like almost everyone in Germany. He lives in Chester, United Kingdom. Norwegian obviously, most speak English and quite a few have studied one other language since 8th grade, usually spanish, german or french.
I'm from Australia and many people here are bilingual (due to us having so many settlers from different countries) but foriegn languages aren't widely pushed in schools. Cookies help us deliver our Services. I think 2 on average would be generous, but maybe people near the borders tend to speak the bordering county's language. I can speak Lithuanian and English.
Press J to jump to the feed. It seems that all of them seem to be at least bilngual if not multilingual (don't mean to generalise). Get answers by asking now. so in addition to our native language, most germans speak more or less english (not everyone is fluent of course), and a good amount has studied a further language (which they also speak more or less). My teacher's idea of teaching us was sitting us in front of Madeline. I did 5 years of French in high school, but never got around to actually using it. Also made an half-arsed attempt of learning Korean and Japanese years ago, but never really got anywhere. i don't know what it's like in other european countries, but in germany the only compulsory foreign language is english. For me it's also German and English with fluent Spanish and French on top.
I'd say people over 30 speak Serbian/Croatian to a higher degree than the younger generations, and younger generations have a better grasp of English language. German is fairly common in the industry sector though so people tend to know it there a bit better. It’s quite common to study a third language at school, or at least it used to be, apparently young people aren’t interested in it anymore and they are trying change that by starting the first foreign language in first grade.
In many schools you also learn a second foreign languages, usually French or Spanish. One, but we are slowly getting up to two with people born in the 80's and after, with either English, Spanish, German or sometime Italian. Talking specifically about foreign languages here, of course in regions where there's another official language on top of Spanish many people will speak both. I, for example, learned French for 4 years, but haven't used it since, so I wouldn't say I speak it. Still have questions?
So I would say that on average a European speaks 2 languages.