Re: Die beste Sprache
It depends a lot of the generation.
I.e. in the Central Europe the older people speak rather German, the young ones speaks almost always English as their first foreign language but German is usually their second foreign language (if any). e.g. it's the case of Poland, Hungary etc.
It depends also of the country/region, e.g. in Romania many 45+ years old peaple speak also French, even in boondocks (it had a special place in the "traditional" Romanian education), but the young people default to English.
The French is usually perceived as totally useless.
BTW, I'm a FR-PL translator, this approach is a blessing for me :-)