Well, if we reduce the requirements from knowing English to being able to understand “toilet! problem!” then of course.
Non-english speakers are not evenly distributed in different countries, that is why it still depends a lot on where you are searching, and in places where there’s almost no demand for speaking English, there will be much less people working in services speaking English.
For instance, you can take a look at Wikipedia’s list of countries by English speaking population, Italy has ≈13% of speakers, Spain has ≈22%, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Portugal all fall between 25–27%%
And it’s not like you can just go and every fourth will be speaking English fluently, I would expect most of them to be in big cities or capitals.
Well, if we reduce the requirements from knowing English to being able to understand “toilet! problem!” then of course.
Non-english speakers are not evenly distributed in different countries, that is why it still depends a lot on where you are searching, and in places where there’s almost no demand for speaking English, there will be much less people working in services speaking English.
For instance, you can take a look at Wikipedia’s list of countries by English speaking population, Italy has ≈13% of speakers, Spain has ≈22%, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Portugal all fall between 25–27%%
And it’s not like you can just go and every fourth will be speaking English fluently, I would expect most of them to be in big cities or capitals.
Wow, the UK and Turkey (I’m not spelling it that way) have the same proficiency in English! /s