They'd better learn chinese if they want to stay ahead.
Anyway I can speak 4 languages and use 3 for radio communication.
When I see a colleague from UK, country that doesn't even have a space, helicopter, aircraft, satellite industry (like eurozone have, thales, eurocopter, arianespace, airbus... being mainly non-english speaking area but space/aviation world leader) complaining about poor level of english in japan, france, germany, china, russia... I smile.
20th century language (or at least the second half, first half was french) was defenitely english, not sure about the 21st yet...
Free advice for english (only) speaking people: spend more time studying (a new language for example?) than complaining about the poor level in english of this or that country on internet.
Just editing my post to say it's was too much to write UK doesn't have any aircraft industry, because RR, BA146, Harrier, Concorde, ... Immediately comes to mind, sorry about that my bad.
Last edited by KAG; 4th Jan 2011 at 11:39.