What is the average number of languages spoken by the EU population?
Czech linguist Jakub Marian set about answering this question by visualising linguistic ability on a map of Europe.
I'm American and I speak 5 languages. I'm not a linguist either.
Nice. I'm starting my third language in 2 months. Hopefully by 2018 (my college graduation) I'll be speaking 4 languages. We are the outliers though aside from those who don't have English as their native tongue.
The U.K. doesn't take language learning seriously, probably because English is so huge around the world. The Netherlands is beyond impressive! I expected nothing less than for them to be first!