I’d be shocked if you found it common in Greece for people to be able to speak English but refuse to, like the French/Germans are known to do.
Greeks are proud of their language/culture/whatever to a severe fault, but they don’t have pretensions of being a world language that others ought to know.
World language pretentions are another factor entirely, seemed to be a real problem only in France. I can’t say I’ve met any people who outright refused to speak english if they clearly knew it, I’m just saying that in some countries you have to push it a bit more. If you’re Greek, you probably know better.
I’d be shocked if you found it common in Greece for people to be able to speak English but refuse to, like the French/Germans are known to do.
Greeks are proud of their language/culture/whatever to a severe fault, but they don’t have pretensions of being a world language that others ought to know.
World language pretentions are another factor entirely, seemed to be a real problem only in France. I can’t say I’ve met any people who outright refused to speak english if they clearly knew it, I’m just saying that in some countries you have to push it a bit more. If you’re Greek, you probably know better.