{"id":15039,"date":"2016-11-16T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=15039"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:48:11","slug":"top-20-countries-english-travels-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/top-20-countries-english-travels-well.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 countries where English travels well"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Top 20 countries where English travels well<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So you want to travel the world, but you&#8217;re worried about your language skills? There&#8217;s good news: Many countries around the world are quite accommodating to English speakers, and the annual English Proficiency Index by EF Education First ranks them. See the slideshow above for the top 20 countries where your English will travel best, plus the five where you&#8217;re most likely to struggle if you don&#8217;t know the local language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lonely Planet ranks the best destinations for 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lonely Planet has chosen the top 10 countries, cities, regions and best value destinations for travelers to experience in 2017. At No. 10 on their list of countries is Ethiopia: &#8220;Step back in time in a land of ancient mystery and dramatic mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/destinations\/2016\/11\/15\/english-proficiency-index\/93802216\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/top-20-countries-english-travels-well.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 20 countries where English travels well So you want to travel the world, but you&#8217;re worried about your language skills? There&#8217;s good news: Many countries around the world are quite accommodating to English speakers, and the annual English Proficiency Index by EF Education First ranks them. See the slideshow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9242,3284,9239,9241,9240,216],"class_list":["post-15039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-lonely-planet-ranks-the-best-destinations-for-2017","tag-news","tag-top-20-countries-where-english-travels-well","tag-top-country","tag-travel-advise","tag-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}