Originally Posted by
fransknorge
Germany in some remote and not so remote corner (some security staff of FRA or STR do not know English).
Spain is several places, Italy too.
Czech republic with old people or bus drivers (and generally speaking most of eastern Europe), Slovakia.
Your assumption is wrong. While in some parts of France English speaking is an issue (due to lack of education for people more than 40 years old and/or pride/culture), the remaining is no worse than its neighbor, UK included (which is where you will find the least understood and clear English of the world:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article...-communicators)
Well, of course there are people who don't know any English. Everywhere specially in the United States. lol, not even their President speaks English.
But the point is, that there is a huge amount of people who know English well enough to have a basic conversation. Whether it is France, Germany or Sweden. Just because there are some older people somewhere who don't know English doesn't make my argument any less valid.