wrote on Jul 9^th, 2008 at 11:18pm:

QUOTE Much the way as Norway, Ireland, Finland, Iceland and a good few others I imagine - regardless of how many people sneer at their incompetent football teams, 'half-baked politicians', and 'half-trained monkeys'. How does Malta survive? END QUOTE They go out of their way to speak foreign and more widely spoken languages.  Show me a Dane, a Nederlander, an Icelander who doesn't speak English and who wants to practice same at every given opportunity.  Not so with the Catalans.  QED.

excuse me :exclamation its us the english who dont or wont speak other languages not the spanish or catalan people.most of if not all of the people we have come across know some english.but they will only use it if they like the person they are talking to  :)so what dose that tell you :-/