American tourist are notorious their arogant assumption that the rest of the world speaks English. As wanna-be traverlers we can never be accussed of the rude American, because we always minimally master survival language skills of our distination country.
Survival language skills
Courtesies
Direction and transportation
Purchase transaction
Food - indentifying and ordering. Foods you are alergic too.
Determine amount of English spoken in your destination city. See chart below. This can vary greatly from country to country. Mandatory that you are able to ask, "Do you speak English". Outside of the major cities the English speaking rate substantially decreases. Try these options if you definately have to speak in English.
Young people
Hotel desk personel
Attraction host and tour guides
Resteraunt Host and Wait staff
Police
Even in English speaking countries it is important to know dailectic differences in words
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