Americans Abroad

Their TV and film industry, like in Spain and Germany, dubs all American and British films and TV shows into the local language. Smaller countries, such as Belgium, the Scandinavian countries and NL, show the films and series in the original, and so the whole population is used to hearing English from their media from childhood on. People in the larger European countries don’t get that kind of constant exposure.

I’m in a different country every day for my work, so I am under constant time pressure to get stuff done quickly and efficiently. Having to request English would slow me down to the point where I would need a twelve day week to do my job. Since at least 75% of my work is in Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium, NOT knowing French, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, German and Schwyzerdütsch, besides making me an idiot, would require more work hours in a week that a week has to offer.