Over 90% of Germans speak English. What foreign language do you speak?

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233. By the way, the 90% statistic is VERY misleading

It's like saying 40% of Americans ca speak German because they can say "Ich bin ein Berliner."

It's true that many Germans, especially in the west, have had German in school and know a few words. But "speak" it? Maybe 15% of Germans on the street can really hold an intelligent conversation, almost all of them under the age of 30. In the east, the old "socialist" part, where the second language taught in schools was Russian until 1990, far less people know English well, and people over 40 often know none at all.

Most Germans will know a few rudimentary words of English, but that no more constitutes speaking it than my "Konban-wa. O cha kudasai" in a Japanese restaurant means I can speak Japanese (I can't, but my accent is good. Boku-wa gai-jin desu).