In the U.S., there’s no language requirement for unemployment compensation, in part because the U.S. doesn’t have an official language. English is by far the most common, but we don’t have any official language(s).
Odd factoid: in the late 18th century, there was a brief attempt to do so, two languages in fact, English and German.
For a non-native in Finland, learning Swedish might be the somewhat easier route than proficiency in Finnish, except maybe for Estonians.
Finland has three languages, but not many speak Sámi (Laplanders). Also, it is interesting that there is far more proficiency in English than in Swedish. About 6% are "Swedish speakers", but nearly all of them Speak Finnish a lot of the time and, they all speak English.
For an English (Or Germanic language) background, for sure! I used to read the Swedish when I first came here, as it made far more sense. Now I am okay enough to read basics in Finnish and get the gist of most stuff. Speaking and listening I struggle with.
Since the stroke, it is incredibly hard, because no pictures form as people speak, so I have to take each word, translate, create an image, insert it into the sentence, then analyze for context. It is impossible on the fly.
I better stay employed.