
21 Mar 2011
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Originally Posted by backofbeyond
Maybe add "Bonjour" (hello) to your linguistic skills and that'll probably do. I spent 30 yrs "voyaging" in France and Morocco with not much more so you can get by. You'll find that everybody you need to talk to will speak English - carpet salesmen, "fixers" at the border, drug dealers etc. Most other people will put the effort in to understand you if you're spending money  .
TBH it is a bit easier if you can speak the language and I've put a lot of effort in to learning French to the point where I'm semi-fluent but on my last trip to France a few weeks ago it was hardly needed. Probably half the people I spoke to replied in English as soon as they heard my accent. Morocco isn't quite as bad as that but a surprising number of people do speak some so you'll be able to sort out the essentials without much trouble.
I've also tried to learn some Arabic, and there's a lot of self learning stuff out there but if you've only got a few weeks before you go I wouldn't think you'd make enough progress for it to be worth while. I survived for years just knowing the Arabic for Coca-Cola  .
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