r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 6d ago

Brutal ratio holy shit #1 Murder of Week

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u/Eliteguard999 6d ago

“Five years olds can read” but the age 50+ customers at my grocery store I manage can’t read a sign to save their fucking lives.

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u/Ordinary_Delay_1009 6d ago

Half of America is effectively illiterate.

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u/shawnisboring 6d ago

I wish you weren't basically right...

  • 21% of the country is illiterate
  • 54% of adult Americans read at or below a 6 grade reading level
  • 20% read at such a low level they can't perform jobs that require reading...

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u/la_noeskis 6d ago

In Germany at least 50% of the population (of age < 40) have at least an english level of B2.

You are cooked.

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u/justwannabeloggedin 6d ago

I might unintentionally be proving I'm the 21% but what is B2

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u/Chosen_Chaos 6d ago

After a quick Google search, it's part of the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages and B2 is the fourth of six levels and seems to be moderately advanced.

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u/Grigoran 6d ago

Damn so they can discuss vague concept in English and we can't even read straightforward instructions in our own native language fuuuuuck

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u/Aelig_ 6d ago

B2 is a bit more than vague concepts usually.

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u/SuquimdeUva 5d ago

You normally have to only need B2 is you can go to college and learn well. B1 is you can travel to somewhere that speaks it and be ok enough and confortable with it. C1 is you are great at it. C2 is you're basically a native having learning it from outside.

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u/ban_jaxxed 5d ago

Its pretty impressive for Germany,

I think its the requirement to do a post graduate degree in English (the course in English. Not an English degree)

I'm monolingual in english and I'm pretty sure im not B2 lol

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u/AffenMitWaffen2 4d ago

B2 isn't that impressive, it's a requirement for most english bachelor degrees, with C1 being recommended, most masters require C1.

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u/ban_jaxxed 4d ago

in the context of that amount of the population in a none English speaking country it is though.

It wouldn't be impressive in like England lol.

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