Plumaveloz, thanks for joining the debate and being so honest. I wish your collegues in MAD and BCN attemted to speak English when there are English speaking a/c on frequency! It's nice to know what other a/c are being told to do - keeps everyone in the loop. Would you prefer it that when we are in the terminal area and we don't understand what is being said to other a/c (ie. we are losing our situational awareness) we should ask for the last transmission to be repeated in English? Would this be acceptable? I'm happy to do it provided I don't get shouted down again.
ps I would like to think that if the international language of the air (and I'm not talking about the vagaries of ICAO) was Mandarin - then I would make damn sure I understood it and so did everyone else - and we stuck to using it.
Stay safe...