I spend a year at a research institution in Germany where English was commonly used (lots of people worked there from all over the world but especially the E.U..) but I might have been the only native English speaker.
All the time at talks I saw people struggle to understand things because English was the second or third language of both the speaker and the listener.
It’s an unexamined phenomenon for many reasons not least the people involved think they are really smart and would have their feelings hurt if they knew how bad it was.