Originally Posted by Analise

I heard the English translation on the DB much more often when I was in Germany 2 years ago.

For stations in smaller cities, there were only German announcements. On my ICE train between FRA and Hannover, the only English spoken by the conductor was a welcome when boarding at FRA and then the arrival notification at Hannover. Cities in between never had anyone speak anything but German. On my train between Berlin and Leipzig, again I only heard English announcements when boarding at Berlin and disembarking at Leipzig — nothing in between. The same applies on the return trip to Berlin that day from Leipzig.

So I found it strange that if a conductor managed to make an English announcement when arriving in Frankfurt, why not include the information that the train we were on was terminating in Frankfurt and that those going further south needed to disembark and then tell them to which platform they needed to go.

I would expect more regional trains to be German-only. That ICE practically was German-only surprised me.