The only language that is spoken worldwide is English. Knowing English is actually useful, regardless of how lovely and attractive it sounds.
“Knowing English is actually useful,”
I think there is a planeload of passengers who would agree with you — if they were alive, that is. Their raghead pilot communicating with ATC in English, “heard” everything backward”.
Hubby got hooked on a group of air disaster videos, and that was one of them.
Folk singer Tom Rush used to repeat the joke in a Southern accent:
"Why do schoolkids have to learn all those foreign languages when English was good enough for Jesus?"