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You can't really compare Scandinavian countries with less than 10 Millions people with one with 1.4 Billions.

Most people there have no real reason to learn English: their customers are mostly all Chinese, their business partners are mostly all Chinese, they don't travel outside of China, every possible type of content you could want exists in local language...

Even in Western countries like France, Spain or Italy, English is not so widely spoken, even if there is a much larger influx of people from other countries.




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