Well, we all learn English in school.
We also learn math, as do people all over the world. Extrapolate from there.
I plan on and want to learn as much German as I can. I just wanted to verify how common even basic English fluency is. In my home province in Canada, French in school from grades 1 - 10 is mandatory. You'd still be hard pressed to find people capable of speaking or understanding French well outside of the French speaking province and the one bilingual province. It's just a question.