°Use of foreign languages
	Use of foreign language
	by occasion and country (CH 2006, EU 2000), in %
	Holidays	Work	Family/Friends	School/studies/training
German-speaking part of Switzerland	70.1	47.8	47.8	28.0
French-speaking part of Switzerland	58.0	58.3	53.6	15.0
SE	66.6	37.3	27.5	17.3
DE	37.2	20.0	13.9	11.5
BE	28.0	26.8	24.1	7.7
FR	20.3	14.3	12.5	8.0
GB	20.2	10.5	11.7	5.4
ES	14.4	13.6	13.0	14.8
	Use of French and English in the German-speaking part of Switzerland 2006 and Use of German and English in the French-speaking part of Switzerland 2006,
	by occasion in %
	German-speaking part of Switzerland		French-speaking part of Switzerland
	English	French	English	German
Holidays abroad.	32.3	32.7	21.8	14.1
Holidays in other linguistic regions in Switzerland	9.2	30.3	6.8	17.7
Films, Television, Radio	20.7	14.4	14.1	13.6
Internet	18.2	5.8	13.6	6.3
Reading books, newspapers	17.4	13.1	10.2	8.3
Communicating with friends	14.6	16.3	11.4	12.6
Communicating at work	13.8	15.9	12.6	12.6
Writing e-mail at work	12.3	6.0	9.5	4.6*
Reading at work	10.5	8.2	8.7	7.0
Studying something other than languages	9.3	3*	4.1*	**
Studying languages	8.3	8.8	3.2*	**
Communicating with family members	6.8	8.8	4.6*	7.0
Travelling abroad on business.	5.5	3.6	6.6	3.4*
Travelling to other linguistic regions in Switzerland on business.	3.8	5.5	7.8	17.7
* 10–30 people
**<10 people