English proficiency world wide

[phuketrichard]

Cambodia only beat out Laos in Asia

In Asia the proficiency scores go from Singapore at the top with 66.03 to Laos at the bottom with 37.56. Outside Asia, many European countries rank higher with places like Netherlands (top of the world rankings), Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, German, Austria and Poland ranking higher than Singapore. African countries and Latin American countries fared fairly poorly.

In South East Asia, Thailand only beat out Cambodia and Laos with all other ASEAN countries performing better in the index. Thai women also outperformed Thai men with English proficiency but that trend is fairly consistent in most Asian countries.

https://www.phuketgazette.net/lifestyle ... roficiency

[chorlton]

visiting borneo Malaysia surprised me the most ref this

only spent a month in Vietnam and I don't remember it being much better than Cambodia but im yet to venture too far from tourist towns here...yet

interesting results

[chorlton]

edit - double post, whoops

[Duncan]

A quick glance over that, does not say whether it is on written or spoken English or both. . Also I would think certain areas of a country, such as cities would have a better command of English over country areas, so their results would depend on what proportion of their test subjects were in each area.
I have noticed in Cambodia many people can read or write English but are very poor speakers. Any kid can go home and practice their English writing skills ,,, but cannot practice their speaking skills unless someone else in the family speaks good English.

[chorlton]

A quick glance over that, does not say whether it is on written or spoken English or both. . Also I would think certain areas of a country, such as cities would have a better command of English over country areas, so their results would depend on what proportion of their test subjects were in each area.
I have noticed in Cambodia many people can read or write English but are very poor speakers. Any kid can go home and practice their English writing skills ,,, but cannot practice their speaking skills unless someone else in the family speaks good English.

spot on and why apps like tinder lull you into a false sense of your match being good at speaking English only to find they can merely read/write it (or uses google translate well)

[John Bingham]

It's a bullshit survey, Thais are fucking terrible at English.

[prahocalypse now]

It's a bullshit survey, Thais are fucking terrible at English.

Indeed. It is done by EF, the McDonalds of ESL teaching. The sampling is not accurate because the participants all self-select on the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_Englis ... ency_Index

[hanno]

I have lived in both Cambodia and Vietnam for quite some time and find that English in Vietnam is a lot less prevalent than in Cambodia. But the I do not know what criteria have been used here.

[prahocalypse now]

I have lived in both Cambodia and Vietnam for quite some time and find that English in Vietnam is a lot less prevalent than in Cambodia. But the I do not know what criteria have been used here.

It is only a test of reading and listening skills.

[hanno]

I have lived in both Cambodia and Vietnam for quite some time and find that English in Vietnam is a lot less prevalent than in Cambodia. But the I do not know what criteria have been used here.

It is only a test of reading and listening skills.

Then Vietnam should be very much at the bottom.