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).
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.