Fairly unsurprising. English is literally harder if your native language is a romance language than if it is a germanic language. Same is true for germanic native speakers who try to learn a romance language.

If they don’t immigrate (i.e. aren’t in anglophone countries), they might still take the test for domestic purposes like proving their ability to deal with tourists or other international customers to their employers. But the test takers are definitely self-selecting, some rural greatgrandmother who barely learnt to read her native language isn’t taking that test.

On behalf of Germans, sorry for that. It’s hard to go against the rightwing propaganda machine, but lots of people are trying.

Come to !ich_iel@feddit.org if you want to learn some new idioms Ü

sounds like absolute garbage.

So the same as most of the norwegian black metal recordings of the era?

Yes, that’s what a dialect is. Well, thanks for clearing up what you meant.

Also, I’d assume even the heaviest dialect speaker will usually be able to write perfectly understandable sentences in a written test.

I have a hard time believing that there are regions in England where native English speakers are on the English proficiency level of France. Unless you classify any dialect as “bad English”.

The only people who are likely to take such a test in an anglophone country are immigrants …

Would be interesting to see how native speakers score, though.

The EF EPI 2024 edition was calculated using test data from 2.1 million test takers in 2023. The test takers were self-selected.

Self-selected. Meh …

Maybe that’s why they strike so much.

What did that even say originally? First line is “Trump” of course, but what’s the second and third line supposed to be?

That’s the stuff on standard non-stick pans (teflon). You don’t make PFAS by burning in some oil at home.

The stupid ones are the people who keep voting for this party, though. Have a Hitler quote for that: “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.” (apparently meant without sarcasm)

The politicians are just self-serving assholes.

Sucks for the workers and the government entitites who have partial ownership of car companies, but the German carmakers deserve it.

Does this actually get in the way when you’re playing with mouse and keyboard? I do use my non-dominant thumb for hitting the space, alt and strg keys, but in many games that’s kinda optional, especially when the games aren’t super challenging. Turn-based RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin or Baldur’s Gate 3 should work great.

And somehow they pick a latin-derived language for that? Latin being literally the language of their church if they’re not protestants? Pope throne being in Rome?

HP did fight fascist wizards, though he still just wanted to restore the old order (which is was pretty fucked up) and then became a wizard cop (specifically wizard interpol IIRC) as an adult.

Certain kinds of fascists love imagining themselves as fighting the “real” fascists.

Seems redundant. Why else would you be in that party in the first place?

“unforseen”

I bet my hypothetical openly gay son is a better cook/pharmacist/witch than any of your hypothetical, probably closeted, children!

This is wrong on so many levels.