How do Europeans communicate with each other?

Question

When Europeans go to other countries, do they normally use English? Do they use the country's language, or do they use the more common tongue? What happens when a Spanish person runs into a Dutch person in France? Do they guess and say hi in different languages until they agree on a common one to have a conversation? Or do they not travel to each other's countries that often?

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Answer 1

Due to nation conflicts and most recently WWII, most of the european nations speak a wide variety of differetn languages.

English, French, Spanish and German are the main dominants in these countries' public education systems. In fact most of these other countries have an English program in their high schools/gymnasiums that rival if not surpass the American English classes of their counterpart levels.

Dutch, Russian, Sweedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Japanese, Italian....and the list goes on, are often offered as electives to choose from depending on the school and nation location.

English is considered the business language for most international situations however interpreters are always in abundance aswell. Thanks mostly in part to England's Empirical attitude from times past, conquering, colonizing and establishing those countries governments and infrastructure.

In most situations, Europeans have a different attitude about travel in other countries than your normal everyday American (used only as an example) Most Europeans visit another country and attempt to speak the local language. Also, if a European reaches conversation level in another country with someone they can not converse with in one language they have the opportunity and knowledge of speaking in another common language that both individuals are familiar, if not, fluent in conversing.

Answer 2

English is likely, but they are often educated in at least six other languages, so they may also speak the language of the country they are in. Plus, the Spanish person may not know that the Dutch person is from Holland, so he/she is likely to speak French in France to the other person, thinking that he/she is French.

Answer 3

In Europe, we start learning foreign language at a young age. So most of the time people can speak 1 or 2 others languages. It helps when you go abroad.

And English is known by a lot of tourists

Answer 4

often, little ones communicate in regardless of language they grew up speaking. So, ecu little ones communicate in regardless of is their language. WHY might a French newborn and an Italian newborn communicate in ENGLISH? they'd have a language in undemanding, it would desire to or would desire to no longer be English. French and Italian are comparable, yet no longer an analogous language. little ones of the age of ten, although, are little sponges, and could p.c.. up adequate of the different's languages to have the flexibility to talk...it would, probably, be some combination of French/Italian, with a smattering of any undemanding language (probable German...on the fringe of the two international places) or something they'd have studied at school. they might additionally pepper it with indications, drawings, and the rest it takes to get the message for the duration of. I grew up in an area the place lots of the little ones used purely an jap ecu language at abode, and until they have been in Kindergarten, they generally did no longer talk any English! They pointed, they presented issues with a grin, the English audio gadget worked with them...all of them tailored, and the Europeans discovered English. One little boy, I bear in suggestions, did no longer even come out of the abode plenty, because of the fact he could no longer communicate/play with something human beings...his older sister translated whilst he did.

Answer 5

By the use of God's own language English - despite the French

Answer 6

I think english, but most of europeans speak several languages.

Answer 7

lol many questions. i think the most common way is learning english and talking english wherever you go to. in europe, nearly everyone speaks english, so it's easy to communicate. and europeans travel about twice a year, in the summer and in the winter. most of us prefer spain/italy/croatia in summer and switzerland/austria in winter.

Answer 8

I have traveled in Europe 3 times, and most everyone there speaks English.....People who work with the public, anyway.
English is taught in most schools in Europe.......

Answer 9

The new rule is that they can communicate only by touch in a dark room.

Answer 10

Euros do the talking.