Spreken ze?

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Yes and I loved it! Learned a new language too!

Hated it! Couldn't understand a thing. Never doing it again.

Never traveled outside of my comfort zone, never will.

Most people speak English so it's not a big deal.

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Have you ever traveled to a foreign country that speaks a language you don't know? What was your experience? How did you get along?

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Shade70 · 51-55, M

Was just in China at the start of the month. My Mandarin consists of "thank you" and "hello" and that's pretty much it. There were a handful of people who knew English that I encountered, but I also learned to take a lot of photos of my hotel with my cell phone for asking for directions if I got lost, haggling prices via calculator screen at markets and other things (menus in restaurants often had pictures of the food in them, thank god!). The hardest part was navigating the city buses. I just took it all in stride and it really added to the adventure and the experience of it all.