My impression, especially as an American, is that most Germans speak English better than we do haha. I've wanted to learn German for a while but my tsundoku pile also extends to languages I want to learn (Spanish, French, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian are all in there too)

That's really interesting! Sorry to go all linguistics nerd but is it codeswitching from English to German mid-conversation? Or is it more like a heavy use of English loanwords like cringe? Is cringe masculine, feminine or neuter? Die Cringe? Das Cringe?

In the last fifty to one hundred years lots of loanwords from English have entered Japanese. English isn't really spoken in Japan (especially compared to Central and Northern Europe) but in a pinch you can still usually get your point across if you just say an English word in a Japanese accent. I've never tried it with cringe though