Originally Posted by
nonpareil
In reply to someone saying something about meeting an Escort with poor English who may have a nationality like English listed, I have met many Czech, Hungarians, Romanians, Poles-5 out of 6 spoke fluent/very good English. The other sixth spoke acceptable, comprehensible English. Eastern Europeans in particular seem able to get a good grasp of English in 6 months or so if they put their minds to it (and often from a standing start.
More than could be said for us I'd say if we tried to learn Czech or Russian or God forbid Magyar.