How many Polish people speak English

Can anyone tell me the percentage of English speaking polish? Is it growing?

No idea what the % is DD but i would say its growing without a doubt...

I guess about 80% or even more of teenagers haves English lessions at schools (at least two times weekly, for at least 3 years to 9/12 years!). At the age of 16 EVERY student have to learn 2 foreign languages, the second one is usually German (but I know schools where You can choose between German and French or Italian or Russian), but the first one is English (usually, sometimes it's German and the English is is the less important foreign langauge, but in most of cases English is the "main" language here).

At the age of 19 everybody have to pass an exam which is similiar to FCE.

About people older than 25 years old... I think most of them don't know English at all, so better try to speak to young and beauty people, just like me.

Sorry for mistakes, website wich helps me with English is now offline ;-p

OUCH!
OK, all of you archaic people of 25 and more. Don't even try to learn English. Just forget it. Call a lawyer and make a Will.

I think I'm dead already.

i bet it is!
before his journey to zamosc/poland my friend asked me if he would have problems with communication when buying things,ordering in a restaurant,hiring a taxi.i said "yes you will" because it is a small town. guess what? he didn't have any problem at all.wherever he went there always were people who spoke english.
btw.bartek212 is right.the older people are ,the least likely they speak english.

60 % Polish people speak English

Babylon,

As there are more older people than younger in Poland I don't trust your figure.

However, among the under 30's it's probably true. But some speak better than others.

Many don't speak english but know how to do the english tests.

Kowalski,

I always ask private students. 'Do you want to learn English or pass the test'

These days I find that people want to learn the language.

Ehhh? What's that you say? I left my hearing aid and reading glasses at home!

I'm just so happy the (school) teaching methods are so crap nowadays that most kids end up knowing very little.
It'll keep my bilingual kids in the money all their life!
State education in Poland is going downhill so fast it might even catch up with Britain!!

Yep. Nowadays polish education system is strict on teaching poles foreign languages
-I started learning english when i was at kindergarden.

leave it out, hadly anyone knows the langauge out there even the young. out of a town i found 2 that spoke english fluently, and the others a few words..................maybe on the increase but your decades off before their ever be fluent in most population of the country.

hardly*

by the way anyone know the reason for a sudden rush in a rash..............got it bad in the last 2 days...........and my blasted ring wont come off grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. bloody hurting my finger

I read somewhere that you were ill. Please take good care of yourself and see a doctor if you are concerned.

In my works I would say that 100% of under 30s speak enough English to get along ok. And 20% of those can read or write English. Above that age they seem to suffer. They use the younger ones to help translate for them. But it doesn't appear to stop them from trying to learn it just seems to take a little bit more time to sink in.
My freinds mothers son, who is 12 years old has just come over to the UK and he speaks and writes good English already.

Oau! that is amazing! so, i won't be having problems when I'll com e to Poland

by the way anyone know the reason for a sudden rush in a rash..............got it bad in the last 2 days...........and my blasted ring wont come off grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. bloody hurting my finger


Thats because the cheap gold on your Argos soveriegn ring is irritating your skin Paul.

If your rash is really sudden and you are sure that you were not in contact with anything infected, than it might be stress
I suggest some some antibiotics

good luck!

After reading some of your posts, it looks like not only people that live in the rural areas of Poland struggle with the English language, but you had a one valid point there, regarding the fluency of English among my fellow Poles. In deed, the fluent ones will be mostl likely only the student's of English philology (with some exceptions of course). The rest of the people in their 20ties will have the language on the basic or medium level, so danny dan, you may have some problems discussing with them William Shakespeare’s poetry or quantum physics, but certainly you won’t have any asking them the way to the nearest pub. Enjoy!

Mr bfs English is crap.. and hes been here for 5 years... when we met, he only knew a few words... but they were obviously the right ones!