Germany is big enough, both population- and business-wise, to not have to lean nearly as much on English compared to smaller countries. You also see this in bo

Germany is big enough, both population- and business-wise, to not have to lean nearly as much on English compared to smaller countries. You also see this in book translations. Here in Denmark, the choice is sometimes rather limited (outside of bestsellers) and the translation quality suffers. Compare this to Germany, where the market is significantly larger, so more more and higher quality translations are available. I'm Danish and my girlfriend is German, and I definitely notice the difference whenever I visit her family in Baden-Württemberg. I also noticed it while I was studying. Technical documentation was usually only available in English and German. When you have a population of >80 million people, there is a large incentive for producing native language products. As a consequence, a lot of Germans over a certain age simply do not speak English very well, or at all.