• Question: do they speak english in Svalbard?

    Asked by 895spdm24 to Lisa on 5 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Lisa Baddeley

      Lisa Baddeley answered on 5 Mar 2018:

      Hi,
      Svalbard is governed by Norway so generally, the working language is Norwegian. But, the University where I work has people from all over the world so we use English as the working language. Norwegians also start learning english from when they are 6 years old so almost everyone here is fluent in English. They also show quite a lot of English tv programs on Norwegian tv (with Norwegian subtitles).
      Hope that answers your question. 🙂

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