Originally Posted by
FlyingOnceMore
habla
inglés 
Whoops. Even this gringo should know better; I wouldn't get very far without "Habla (usted) inglés?"
Of course, I usually have my Mexican-American wife to tag along as my interpreter.
Still, surely there must be a way to permanently set English (or another language of choice) as the automatic default so that we Google users don't have to manually re-set our default language every time we travel abroad to a country that speaks a different language.