Official stats report that 51% of the Greek population can speak English to some extent, which compares favorably to other countries in Southern Europe like Spain and Italy but is slightly less than the prevalence in Germany for example.

But, do people speak English in Greece? Greece’s population is roughly 10.8 million people. Out of the total population about 51% or 5.5 million Greeks speak English.

Yes, English is spoken as a second (or third) language by millions of people in Greece. It’s the most widely spoken foreign language. Most university graduates have …

12/06/2014 · Official data released by the Eurobarometer Special Surveys shows that, when it comes to people being able to speak English, Greece reaches 51 percent. Greece stands in the middle of the list of countries included in this survey.

In general, the people above ~35 don’t speak English too well, as they most likely had Russian and German/French as foreign languages in school (under the communist regime), so if they speak English at all, they’ve learned it relatively late in their life.

30/03/2021 · Published by M. Szmigiera , Mar 30, 2021. In 2021, there were around 1.35 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.12 billion ...

07/09/2016 · least a year or more) and only rely on speaking English? Not everyone in Greece speaks english. As a rule of thumb, people over 40 don't, while younger ones do in a varying level of proficiency. If you were a tourist you would enjoy having a local trying to eg give you guidance on how to get someplace, but it might tire you in the long term.

04/02/2022 · Although now spoken as a native language by only 13.4 million people in Greece, Cyprus, and throughout the diaspora, Greek once was the lingua franca of the ancient world, spoken for business, education, politics, art, and science, much like English today.