Hi, so I’m very young and this may change, but I wanna get started at learning a language anyway. I either wanna go to Germany, Austria, Poland, or Italy. According to the Wikipedia, I believe Italy speaks the least amount of English out of the 4.
However, which country would have what I’m looking for: rich culture (probably all), good writing inspiration, friendly people, cheap places but still good to live, good pay for jobs like teachers, and in need of English education. Also, not a lot of far-right, homophobic/Nazi groups (I’m a lesbian).
Im not sure if there is a high demand for english teachers in germany. I would argue that most kids pick up english by themself from social media, their favorite influencers, youtube or some indy videogames that did not have the budget tr translate into 20 different languages and only come in english.
Everpresent foreign-language media helps a lot, but to make sense of it you generally still need actual lessons, unless you’re one of the extremely smart or dedicated ones. Also, German has a thriving synchronization/translation industry, the need to learn English yourself for media consumption isn’t nearly as big as for languages with fewer speakers or less economic resources.
I do agree that the German-speaking countries don’t have a high demand for foreign English teachers. English isn’t that hard to learn for them and at least in Germany, the public education system is relatively decent at teaching the language.