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As a Brit living in Malaysia I can only answer for one country.
It is not easy. I had a German friend trying to get an AFI rating here, she eventually gave up.
I spent 9 months trying to get my AFI rating renewed (admittedly whilst the two MH disasters were extant). So the bureaucracy is infuriating.
This is one of the few (two) countries in ASEAN where English is the main language, I exclude Singapore as they have no airspace worth talking of.
I teach in Vietnam and can tell you that French is becoming of increasingly less importance in that country. Only (in my experience) people of over the age of 50 have any knowledge of the language.
Hope this helps.