I took 5 1/2 years of High School level Spanish, 7th grade students took a semester of French and a semester of Spanish, and then you had the option of taking Freshman level Spanish in 8th grade, and an additional 4 years of Spanish once you got to High School. Spanish is commonly used here, but over 50 years I just never used it enough to keep up. I can understand somethings but have lost most of the vocabulary.
In College I took a month long trip to East and West Germany/Austria/Poland and our group met up with an International Businessman who asked why Americans bother learning a foreign language because, as he put it, we already spoke the International Language. He did business all over the Eastern Bloc including the Soviet Union and all his business was done in English.