apparently you never heard of taxi apps which provide pretty much same experience as Uber while working with licensed taxi drivers
BTW not sure why should taxi driver in Spain speak English
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> not sure why should taxi driver in Spain speak English
Because it is embarrasing to have a tourism-based economy and at the same time to be proud of not speaking any English, which is highly likely to be at least one of the common languages you are going to share with the customer.
Disclaimer: I am a native spaniard. If you are going to visit Sevilla for Semana Santa, you better have some Spanish under your belt because it's highly unlikely anyone around you speaks anything else.
I have but they work not at all like the Uber app: the ones I tried, in Spain anyway, are awful and buggy. Which one(s) are you talking about?
>not sure why should taxi driver in Spain speak English
for many reasons I would find obvious (economic etc) but besides that: given the choice between someone with and without multiple languages the better service is multiple, so sure, does not have to but overall it helps.
Well.. maybe you should learn some Spanish, after all, you are in Spain.
Do a lot of Uber drivers in your city speak Spanish or Chinese?
I speak Spanish, lived there for 10 years. That's again not the point; it is extra service. And most Spanish people I meet agree people need to learn English by the way; you do not? It would not be too weird to ask for a basic grasp of English in a 'united Europe'. Or pick a language; German, French, Spanish, but something we all 'speak'. It would help, but that's another discussion.
Sure, it would be wonderful if we all speak Esperanto, but this is not the case.
It would be useful to me that wherever I travel people talk some common language with me, but I don't feel like they have to.
It seems to me that if you choose to visit a foreign country you should expect some inconveniences and adapt to the local population.
As a tourist, I'm prepared to adapt to other countries.
But as a citizen, I expect my countrymen to do better than the bare minimum, and learning English is part of that. I write this as a non-English speaker myself.
Yes, but that is economically probably not a smart thing to do. In Spain where I live I see people who speak English consistently do better. Things are just easier to get. Let alone when someone speaks 'niche' languages like German.
So, why learn only English and drive a taxi then?
Maybe they should get PHd in Nuclear Physics and make some real money.
apparently you never heard of taxi apps which provide pretty much same experience as Uber while working with licensed taxi drivers
And how many existed before Uber? That's their value: they give a nice push to a complacent industry used to have a nice little monopoly. After that, it can burn to the ground for all I care.