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The fact that such an obvious thing still needs to be repeated makes me despair. Some people literally can't grasp the concept of people speaking other languages.
Yup, sad, isn't it? Most Americans seem to have an attitude of entitlement, believing that much of the rest of the world should speak their language. They're really missing out.
bulgarians are very friendly to tourists. Just like turks - if you can consider turkey "european". I think Romania and Ukraine as well. So the friendliest euro countries:
1. romania
2. bulgaria
3. ukraine
4. (turkey)
The least friendly are probably Sweden or Switzerland. Or maybe France? Not too sure...
The perceptions that British are not friendly is wrong. All Europeans are friendly if you and them can talk in English. I work at an airport outside of Europe. Japanese I seldom have a chance to talk much with them because their culture is more different and their english level is very bad. Other Asians are much better to talk to.
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Most nationalities are friendly if you know the language. That's the key. Sure the Irish and Scots are friendly towards Americans, because they speak the same language! Canadians and Brits (outside of London) are friendly, too. Surprise, surprise. Go to southern Germany speaking German, and you'll find the people are wonderful. Same with France (even Paris ). You name it: Poland, Russia, Romania, Croatia, etc.
How friendly are English-speakers when approached by foreigners who don't speak English? See how that works?
The perceptions that British are not friendly is wrong. All Europeans are friendly if you and them can talk in English. I work at an airport outside of Europe, not an anglophone country. Japanese I seldom have a chance to talk much with them because their culture is more different and their english level is very bad. Other Asians are much better to talk to.
Many europeans or latin americans keep talking to me in English but actually I am not very good in English.
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Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth
Most nationalities are friendly if you know the language. That's the key. Sure the Irish and Scots are friendly towards Americans, because they speak the same language! Canadians and Brits (outside of London) are friendly, too. Surprise, surprise. Go to southern Germany speaking German, and you'll find the people are wonderful. Same with France (even Paris ). You name it: Poland, Russia, Romania, Croatia, etc.
How friendly are English-speakers when approached by foreigners who don't speak English? See how that works?
Yup, sad, isn't it? Most Americans seem to have an attitude of entitlement, believing that much of the rest of the world should speak their language. They're really missing out.
I wonder if Canadians are this bad?
I never understood this. Where's the fun in that? Where is the adventure? Last thing I want on a holiday is to hear everyone around me speaking Dutch. When we go on holidays, mostly by car, we always say "the holiday starts when people can't understand us anymore".
From my experience in Western Europe, the Dutch and Italians are pretty friendly. I hear the Czechs and Romanians are also pretty friendly in Eastern Europe but I haven't experience it firsthand.
Romanians are friendly only if you're a foreigner and do that because are scared by unknown. If you're a Romanian, they eat you alive.
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). You name it: Poland, Russia, Romania, Croatia, etc. 
See how that works?
