asahartford1
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You mean immigrants.
It's not all like that, though. I was walking next to the beach near Marbella (when Sean Connery had a house there) and asked a bloke "habla inglese?" He was English and just said "English, Spanish, French.... whatever you want". Whereas if I try any local language on holiday, chances are they assume I'm German because Brits don't even usually try.
Haha.
I have had a house in Spain for 22 years.
I integrated and took lessons for a few years , now we both speak good Spanish.
The ex pats I meet, would contain at the most 5% who can speak the language, and they nearly all live in little English ghettos.
The Northern Europeans speak 3/4 languages fluently.
Our Education system is pants.