Among the countries where English is not the national language, in Scandinavia is the best learning, and substantial gap in knowledge has been recorded in Russia, Turkey and Latin American countries.

Learning and knowledge of English are becoming more and more one of the basic requirements for participation in international business, but one study suggests that in this plan there are vast differences from country to country. Among the countries where English is not the national language, in Scandinavia is the best learning, and substantial gap in knowledge has been recorded in Russia, Turkey and Latin American countries.

This conclusion is based on the results of tests of English among the more than 2.3 million adults in 44 countries in the period since 2007 to 2009.

Despite the huge public investment in learning English, the people of the People’s Republic of China and India are the two tests showed less knowledge than you expect, so they found themselves at 29 or 30 point. Although China will likely soon become “the greatest nation in the world that speaks English”, mastery of the language among its residents is considerably lower than in neighboring countries – South Korea and Japan – and in Western countries.

The Indians, despite the long colonial past under British, hardly proved to be better than the Chinese. Italians and Spaniards are lagging behind other Western Europeans and the level of English among the 44 states, they take 23, and 24th place.

There was a strong correlation between levels of government and English the nation’s wealth. Experts explain that this was partly the result of having the rich invest more in education. In addition, the successful of learning English is the basis for better economic opportunities.

Bill Fisher, president of EF, points out that developing countries will have to invest in better knowledge of English among its residents, in order to remain competitive in the global business. Latinos were in testing of English showed the worst.

Experts say that this is probably due to the fact that they already have a common language, Spanish, which may diminish the incentive to teach well and English.