According to the ICAO, all ATC comms should be in English. Quite rightly however,> most controllers use their native tongue unless talking to international flights.
Actually, I think that's a serious problem. One of the benefits of using a common ATC frequency (instead of some kind of direct plane-to-plane comlink) is that we can all hear ATC talking to other aircraft and form an idea of what's happening around us. ATC *does* make mistakes, all the time, and almost always pilots catch those mistakes (just like ATC catches ours). If a non-native pilot cannot understand the other chatter on the radio, we lose that safety layer.
All the best,
David
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