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Countries, nationalities and languages

Who speaks what where?
Country Nationality Language
Germany German German
France French French
Italy Italian Italian
Spain Spanish Spanish
Britain British English
Portugal Portuguese Portuguese
Japan Japanese Japanese
Korea Korean Korean
China Chinese Mandarin (also Cantonese)
Thailand Thai Thai
Australia Australian English
The United States American English
of America
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Arabic
Brazil Brazilian Portuguese
Sweden Swedish Swedish
Switzerland Swiss Swiss-German, French, Italian
Egypt Egyptian Arabic
Holland Dutch Dutch
Mexico Mexican Spanish
Russia Russian Russian
Israel Israeli Hebrew
Greece Greek Greek
Turkey Turkish Turkish
Argentina Argentinian Spanish
The people

When you are talking about people in general from a particular country, there are some
nationalities that you can make plural with an ‘s’, but others can only be formed with the
definite article (and no plural ‘s’):
Brazilians The British
Germans The French
(The) Italians are (usually very ...) The Swiss are (usually very ...)
Russians The Dutch
Israelis The Japanese
Note:
¢ With both groups you can also use the word ‘people’: British people, German people, etc,
¢ When you talk about one person from these countries, you need to add woman/man/
person to the group on the right: a Brazilian but a Japanese person; a German but a
Swiss person, etc.

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