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Learning a few phrases is not going to help you with the language barrier. Suggestion to become fluent enough for conversation before visiting a foreign country is just absurd lol
It's clear that ppl in this thread have never attempted to learn a foreign language as an adult huh
And they’ve probably never travelled outside of English speaking counties.
I’d have to be a genius to speak the language of every country I’ve travelled to, and that’s ignoring the countries that have several distinct and active languages (looking at you, Austria…)
Let me guess, it's all use the same writing system, from the same background (germanic languages).
I mean learning 2 languages isn't hard but to learn one spending so much time to get fluent enough to converse just for your one week trip is just stupid on multiple levels