Merci bien messieurs, de même pour vous. En Angleterre la langue seconde est souvent oubliée après la scolarité (sauf aux Pays de Galle et Ecosse ou ils apprennent Gaelic), parce-que les médias étrangers sont une chose rare (c'est très mal, commes les filmes et musique surtout) -c'est assez dur de l'utiliser quand il n ya les personnnes à qui parler/ ecouter. Ma souer at copain habitent en Pays-Bas et Danemark et c'est dur pour eux d'apprendre aussi car tout le monde répondre en Anglais.
One thing that really annoys me about the English speaking world is how blinkered we've become to everything outside it, and how much we're missing; it really is our loss - a vast plethora of contemporary culture and icons, and unbeknownst a great deal that's better. The fact 'foreign language film' is a single category that covers the entirety of the world's media, while largely excluding them from the rest of the categories says a lot. K-pop, Parasite, Penelope Cruz or flipping Despacito is only the tip of a humongous iceberg, while many actors, speakers, writers and musicians that have made it this side are oft assumed to be American/ Brit i.e Arcade Fire being Québécois as I'm sure you're aware.
It's not so much that English speakers feel the language superior abroad (trust me, we're entirely out of our depth and anxious when approaching a native), but that's all we often know to do + the convenience of it being the current lingua franca. We realise how rude it is to just automatically speak in English, while unavoidably doing it -we even have memes about loud, obnoxious Brits abroad, shouting louder at 'Johnny Foreigner' as if to help make them understand, which is how they did things in colonial times, and how chavvy old people still function on the Costa del Sol, who've lived there for decades without speaking a word. People who do that are badly looked down upon in UK (and implied as well, racist). If we don't at least ask if you speak English at the start, while being in an entirely foreign country, then that's beyond the pale imo.
One thing I've noticed is on the other way round a completely different attitude - if a foreigner comes to the country and doesn't speak English, they're kinda looked on as stupid and alien. Utterly hypocritical I know
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In short Brits abroad are quite apologetic and painfully aware when not knowing the language, yet unsympathising when foreigners do the same here.
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Ha ha. C'est bien.
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