Oh, that's changing! It might have been that way before, that they had to learn Swedish, but they don't anymore. Met a girl from Denmark and we couldn't understand each other at all, so we tried for a couple sentences every once in a while but switched back to English pretty fast because we had to speak so slowly to understad each other
Every time I go to France to ski I try to teach the skiing instructor the phrase: "KÃļtta pÃĨ!" [Shut-a-pô] because it sort of sounds French and it means "Go fast!" sort of. Because they always want us to go faster 