Army, Marine special operators fail to keep up with language training
The report flagged a lack of accountability, but special operations personnel said other training takes priority.
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The report flagged a lack of accountability, but special operations personnel said other training takes priority.
In the Nordic countries, widespread proficiency in English is positioned as a positive and even critical component of overall global competitiveness and competence. Indeed, maps illustrating who speaks the “best” English in Europe show a swath across the Nordic countries, and the number of people in the Nordic countries claiming proficiency in English is only a few percentage points below those in places such as the UK and Ireland. At the same time, the Nordic countries are routinely listed as the “happiest,” the most egalitarian, the most classless, least corrupt, and an epicenter for...