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As a Canadian visiting Munich with only very basic phrasebook German, virtually everything was English Compatible, and I had nearly no problems. The biggest problem I did have was that one night we got takeout from a Thai restaurant (don't ask...) and the people at the Thai restaurant spoke German, and presumably Thai, but not English. These were the only people in Munich we encountered that didn't speak English, but that seems fair to me since presumably German is already not their first language.
And the second was that we went to a grocery store that apparently only had Self Checkouts or something, and we didn't understand the protocol for how the line divided between the checkout machines, so we were shouted at for not taking machine 7 when it was our turn. Again, our fault, but the shouter didn't know we didn't speak German, and so shouted in German, and I didn't put together right away that what they were shouting meant "7" in the context, but in the end it worked out and we all lived.
The last problem I had was just the general vague sense of shittyness I feel about myself anytime I visit somewhere without speaking their language, but the Munich trip was kind of a surprise addition to a France trip for logistical reasons, and I had no time to study. But none of the people there made me feel that, it's just a me thing.