Quote Originally Posted by Des Parrot View Post
Indeed, I work in Germany on a regular basis and they are saying the same. There is a major fear that as English is the language of the internet, the German Language is being undermined & bastardised via media.

I have staff of 26 different global nationalities working for me. For many English is taught at school as their 2nd language, however for many others, the common response is that they learnt their English via Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel or similar.
TV has always been a great way of learning a language, it's why countries where they have subtitles not dubbed tv shows and movies usually has better English speakers.