Oh no, only 60%? Surely that's plenty for a conversation, no?
Now I wonder if this number, provided it is a real one, went up or down during the last 30 years. I would bet on lower but it's only a gut feeling.
Now I wonder if this number, provided it is a real one, went up or down during the last 30 years. I would bet on lower but it's only a gut feeling.
It's plenty for communication, not plenty for a conversation.
(It's also a mirror for colonialism, by the way, where the occupied speak the language of the occupier, but the occupiers can't be arsed to learn the language of the occupied.)
/s
can't even talk about chips and language without being attacked by the crew
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294267
• https://german.stackexchange.com/a/53783
It's a linguistic topic. Good luck trying to talk with Germans as an English speaker.
English and German share 60% of vocabulary.
Although as an English-speaking native who has studied German, Dutch often maddeningly looks like it should make sense, but it doesn't.