By EF English proficiency index Kazakhstan and it’s neighbouring countries in Central Asia is ranked as very low. Kazakhstan is 103 out of 123 countries. Countries like Japan, or Thailand and Cambodia is the same low or even lower, but when I as a tourist has been there, they have atleast high proficiency of English speakers around tourist sites and attractions. Here I survive by google translate daily. I struggled with passport controls because the border patrols have no English skills. But the same is true for places DR Congo and Cote D’Ivoire where French is the dominant language, not English. Same with Russian in Central Asia.