As fluent speaker in several languages, and given that European travellers speak on average three languages (native, resident country and English) I completely disagree.
Languages are a way to express culture of a country and there are many words that never translate well between languages, because they express ideas or points of view not present in the target languages.
Usually this idea of one language to rule them all, seems to keep coming up from cultures not able to bother to learn anything else other than English.
Languages are a way to express culture of a country and there are many words that never translate well between languages, because they express ideas or points of view not present in the target languages.
Usually this idea of one language to rule them all, seems to keep coming up from cultures not able to bother to learn anything else other than English.