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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
I highly recommend the Michele Thomas Audio learning guides. He has a fantastic method of teaching you the essentials.
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Second this. They're great tapes and you can learn in the car/bus/whatever. For digital resources, I much prefer Memrise over duolingo.
Try to find YouTube videos to help with the pronunciation.
When you're in the country I actually found having a physical phrasebook helped a lot. They don't pack big and when you're trying to communicate at a hotel or wherever you can flip to that section and work it out with the other person you're trying to talk to.
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Originally Posted by Tony LEE
Plain facts are that there are English speakers almost everywhere and even when there aren't there are are other ways to communicate.
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While not knowing the language shouldn't ever stop someone from traveling, your experience and reception will be so much better if it's obvious that you put in even some basic effort. While it's not practical to try to learn every language you pass through (sorry Bulgarian!) doing it for the places you'll be spending a lot of time is totally worth it. I just learned Indonesian for this trip and it's made such a difference for me.
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