Stumbled upon this from another community, do you agree?

In Germany, it will absolutely depend on where you try this. Bigger cities? Yeah, likely. Countryside? You're lucky if you find someone speaking understandable German, let alone English.

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As a Russian, I agree. Like okay, man, you have challenged yourself to the level when you easily construct sentences in accusative case, but why? To read Bakunin or understand Letov's metaphors?

Foreigners who learn Russian out of curiosity are true madlads.

Swede here. We all speak English. Heck - my kids use English whenever they're speaking about games or Youtube anyway.

Come to think of it. We should just drop Swedish altogether.

I was in France and when I tried my best French (which admittedly is not that great) all I got was an angry stare. Like, not one time, but in several cases. I did not understand why. I was just doing my best. 😢

So, I think the map is correct for France.

The correct legend for France is:

"Please don't.

Also, don't speak foreign. Especially not English."

This is why expats in the Netherlands never learn Dutch even after years of living there. I know of people who lived in Amsterdam for 10 years and still don’t know any Dutch beyond “Hoe gaat het? Één stroopwafel alsjeblieft” the worst thing is that their kids who have spent most of their lives in the Netherlands don’t speak a lick of Dutch either, because these elitists send their kids to international school.

German here: There's more than enough Germans who don't master the language so please don't torture my ears with your butchery, too.

You're welcome.

I spoke Spanish at a shop in Barcelona and they were not my friend.

Germany might be like that in Berlin and to an expect in some other big cities, but in most of the country, das ist Deutschland, wir sprechen deutsch!!

As a Belgian, I'm a bit annoyed with the lack of Dutch/French distinction, but at least they mentioned that on the side

As a german I can say this seems legit. I'd rather speak english to a non-native speaker than german, because most of the time it is hard to follow their speaking due to their faults in pronounciation and grammatics. Well, except when they speak german good (at least A2 or higher) or need it for their training.

Went to Turkey once and people seemed genuinely impressed when we attempted to speak Turkish. They also seemed impressed we were Americans. Almost all the other English-speaking tourists we met were older Brits, many of which acted pretty haughty. I guess they're less used to Americans visiting. Turns out on the West Coast at least a large portion of Turks speak English

Is the blue bit in Sweden near the Norwegian border a dialect area or a lake?

The thing with France is that their reaction is the same if you don't speak French either.

I know a lot of people who don't speak German as their native language and who don't or barely speak English, so I'd rather speak in German with them, or French with some of them.

I'm from Marseille so not strictly speaking french but if you speak my language I'm going to be delighted and will let you know. France should really be sliced in half at around waist height

Learning Danish at the moment. The language is fun but the pronunciation is so cursed, God help me. German pronunciation was a walk in the park. So glad they all speak fluent English.

I don't think I agree with Spain unless you are in Barcelona and managed to say a few words in Catalán.

In blue countries people will make a point of correcting your mistakes

As a Lithuanian can confirm why would you learn this language unless you are staying for a long time.

Japan is also in the red category.

I don't see why parts of that map are blue and grey. Why not also make it a different shade of red. Or in fact, make everything the same shade of red.

Because fuck readability I guess