Please, Turkey?
I just don't understand how that manages to get placed within Europe.
It's Asia Minor for goodness sake.
It's almost as bad as when we consider Israel as part of Europe in the Eurovision song contest.
Also, Europeans don't respect the British as much as you think.
And we don't really respect them.
It's a bad thing to say though, really.
All neighbouring countries have dislikes of each other.
It allows the individual countries to feel national pride against a common enemy, the next-door neighbour, even if they do happen to be one of your strongest and closest allies, such as France and Britain.
If you want to not have Europeans make fun of you learn French, Italian, or both. Then you have the excuse of speaking english as a second language.
This is good advice if you're in the latin-based areas of western europe.
If you happen to know almost any of the languages, including French, English, Spanish or Italian you're quite well off with being able to understand most basic phrases between each of those countries.
But if you're in France or Spain or Germany, as examples, you'll get by perfectly fine with just English.
If anything, I dare say that Britain is the least accomodating to other European languages.
If I were to go to France and speak in English to people in a town, I'd likely be near-perfectly understood by a fair few people, or at the very least a couple of people who know the basics of what I speak and can translate.
If a french person were to come to England and speack French to people in a town, they'd have some difficulty finding someone who could translate for them out of the general public.
But in Sweden, you're well off with just English as you are in most Western European places.
And considering the fact that all of Mojang (as far as I'm aware) speaks English aswell as Swedish, then you'd do fine working with them.
And if you were to find yourself in sweden and surviving on your English, it would be possible for you to pick-up Swedish as a secondary language by learning it out there.
And in Europe, it alongside most of the Scandinavian languages are probably considered some of the most "exotic" european languages, or atleast one of the most interesting/unusual to those who are only accustomed to the more latin-languages.
As a question, is the placement you're trying for based in Sweden or is it one where you can work from home, as they do have foreign members.
Both of the people who work for Mojang on the phone and Xbox versions live outside of Sweden. One of them lives in Britain, but I'm not sure which one.
If you were to get a job with them and then just stay where you are, it'd make this discussion of languages and things raaather pointless.
