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Over 70% of Irish people cannot speak a foreign language

According to Eurostat, over 70 percent of Irish people cannot speak a foreign language, compared to just 22 percent in Germany and 41 percent in France. However, there is a valid reason for this. The majority of pupils in Ireland do learn a second language, Irish. In Irish-speaking schools, English is learned as a second language. This is not recorded by Eurostat. Read more about this story in

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This chart shows the % of Europeans with no foreign language skills in 2011.

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