Does it matter to the OP's point how well-spoken you are? Biting down some non-constructive snark here.
Yes, English is a good lowest common language, and it is mostly that announcements are in English. But learning enough of the native language that you are at least puzzled enough to ask another passenger seems like a not very high and reasonable bar for travel-speak to pick up.
I speak fluently 6 languages, and a few dialects of them, how many do you speak?
Does it matter to the OP's point how well-spoken you are? Biting down some non-constructive snark here.
Yes, English is a good lowest common language, and it is mostly that announcements are in English. But learning enough of the native language that you are at least puzzled enough to ask another passenger seems like a not very high and reasonable bar for travel-speak to pick up.
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