Foreign Languages
According to a Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2005, Russian was the most commonly known foreign language in Bulgaria (35% claimed workable knowledge of it), followed by English (23%), German (12%) and French (9%).
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Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or languages:
“Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)