In your country, what percentage of people would you estimate cannot speak the main language?

[Erronkari]

Less than 0.5%.
Amerindians are 2.4/2.7% of the population, but I speculate that the bulk of them have a good knowledge of spanish language right now.
And immigrants too, may be some chinese ones would be the exception.

[Cernunnos]

So most retirees from Britain, France, Germany etc. do speak Portuguese then?

They learn the language because they do not live alone, they have neighbors who might just speak Portuguese.


There are alot of blacks who are bilingual (they speak Portuguese and speak another african language or Kriol).

[Cernunnos]

I already said in the OP that the Limited English Proficiency percentage in the US is 8%.

There was even a member in this forum who was American born and for sure would get a limited English proficiency score.

[Tooting Carmen]

There was even a member in this forum who was American born and for sure would get a limited English proficiency score.

I thought he migrated from Mexico to the US as a child?

[Celestia]

I live in the US so I absolutely can not speak for the whole country, but as for my city of Houston, I’d say a hefty amount of people do not speak the main language.
It’s never bothered me. If they are able to live fine without English, that is their business.

[Tooting Carmen]

I live in the US so I absolutely can not speak for the whole country, but as for my city of Houston, I’d say a hefty amount of people do not speak the main language.
It’s never bothered me. If they are able to live fine without English, that is their business.

Mostly Latin Americans and to a lesser extent East Asians, right?

[Tommie]

There are people who belong to ethnic minority groups who either speak broken Romanian, or no Romanian at all.

[Tooting Carmen]

There are people who belong to ethnic minority groups who either speak broken Romanian, or no Romanian at all.

Romanis, Hungarians and Germans? What percentage of people in Romania would you thus estimate have limited or no knowledge of Romanian then?

[Seya]

Romanis, Hungarians and Germans? What percentage of people in Romania would you thus estimate have limited or no knowledge of Romanian then?

no, only hungarians. not sure how many. mostly the ones who live in two isolated regions.

[alnortedelsur]

In Spain: nobody. Even everybody in Catalonia, Valencia, Baleares, Basque Country and Galicia speaks and is very fluent in Castilian-Spanish besides speaking their own regional language. And even some people from those regions only speaks Castilian-Spanish.

In Venezuela: only isolated Amerindian tribes.