I'm currently on holiday in Tenerife (Spain). Earlier I went to a restaurant and was served by a very nice waitress who spoke very good English. Turns out she is German. So she is fluent in German, English, and Spanish (that I know of) and she's working as a waitress ! In England (maybe in USA as well) fluency in 3 languages would mark her out as highly educated and intellectual. In mainland Europe it is nothing special. Sadly I am English so, like most English people I speak no other language beyond "tourist" French and Spanish.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
