mleku on Nostr: depends on how small the place is, but it's the same here... down the road from me is ...

depends on how small the place is, but it's the same here... down the road from me is one cafe where only the youngest daughter of the proprietor speaks english, her dad and her big sister both barely know a word

the guy up the street from me, where i go most often because it's 3 minutes walk, he speaks pretty good english, but he was living in south africa until the late 90s when all that shit broke out and the blacks were hunting the whites (i have known others, and there is a lot of portuguese south africans here in my area)

and the other cafe, further up the hill, they speak zero english at all, they have a daughter who sometimes works behind the bar but i don't think she speaks english either... more often one or two of the patrons are the ones who speak english there, and again, many more times than not they are more or less refugees from south africa

a lot of people in europe speak servicable spanish... the locals you will find mostly it's the youngest ones who speak it well and very often they were both taught at school and possibly worked in england for a time, a LOT of people from all over europe in their late 20s early 30s these days did a few year stint working in england, so many of them know english, or they watched american movies a lot as kids and learned from that, and second most common second language is german, gastarbeiter etc

welcome to europe!