Thread:Kiadony/@comment-5916303-20150313162115/@comment-1746153-20150321134817

I speak English with the US accent, mostly because I've been learning from songs, movies and games that also had people or characters speak it. I also had an American teacher at some point at school. My pronunciation is apparently good enough to fool people, they often can't tell where I'm from. My father however only knows a few phrases in English but manages to communicate just fine.

Well, my brother said the same about Dusseldorf, while I've encountered worse problems in Italy (or rather, Sicily) where no one spoke English at all. They also understand French a bit better because it's more similar to Italian than English. It was better in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, I don't remember running into any problems there, probably due to more tourists visiting these cities. There are opposite examples like Turkey, which has a lot of locals who speak Russian and German in the resort zones due to many tourists.