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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Go to Germany, not the big cities, or France, or Italy...
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France and Italy I don't got to either, for the same reason. German, I can make my self understood with! (So, Italy is fine, actually, as long as you stay in South Tirol)
Small anecdote: ages ago, when I was still young, we went on a Interrail tour through Europe. We first went to Kopenhagen, then Berlin, Vienna, Bern and then back home. On the way from Kopenhagen to Berlin, we wanted to book a night train from Berlin to Vienna (the only night train we've taken that entire trip). So, I went to a counter and tried to order a ticket, in my bestest German. After a few sentences, the person opposite me switched to English... I probably had used a bit too much English inbetween my German
(I always had low grades for English, German and French at highschool, I always mixed up the languages
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On that same trip, in Kopenhagen, there was an interrail counter (staffed by Danish students, to help interrailers in Kopenhagen) at the train station. We were talking to a helpful person (in English, as my Danish isn't really existing either) when two French guys came along. They started talking in French. The person on the other side made it clear he didn't understand French, only Danish, German and English. Those two French persons didn't understand him and kept on talking to him in French...
Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... But Spanish and Italian might as well be Chinese...