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Anonymous
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You can go literally everywhere in Europe (even eastern) and manage quite well knowing five languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian.
If you are fluent in those, somebody will be able to talk to you everywhere, quite literally. And I would argue that adding Portuguese, Japanese and Mandarin to that would allow you to speak with 5 out of every 6 people in the entire world.
My ex was Austrian, and she knew German, English, French, and Italian, and that is very very common for people who have gone through grade school within the last 30 years.
Everybody in Eastern Europe knows Russian as well as their native tongue, because most of Eastern Europe used be the USSR.
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