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>>1206930
>> What's the easiest language to learn for a native English speaker?

We have no idea how smart, dumb, or lazy you really are. Any language could be considered "easy".

>> What's the most useful language to learn for an American that wants to travel?

Depends where you want to travel... Knowing German is not going to help you much in South Asia, right?

>> Is there any point in mastering foreign languages, or should I just try and get the gist?

Realistically you probably need to know about 700 words to be able to converse in most situations in a foreign language.. above that you are entering what some would call fluent.. but "fluent".. its a myth.

>>1206930
>German
>English
>Up to you m8

>>1206930
I've been trying Russian for about 4 months. Slowly I see myself slipping as I have had major difficulties with their conjugation system and I have gotten frustrated and been practicing less

if you don't board the first flight the whole trip gets cancelled.

But here it's not your first flight, but the first of the return. You might be able to cancel that leg by calling the airline after having already travelled to TBS.
But I wouldn't count on it.

>>1206871
Just fly to Istanbul and then buy round trip tickets to Tbilisi

>>1206886
What if you skip out on the last leg of the flight there? As in I stop in KBP on my way to TBS missing the last flight, however get a 1 way to TBS and get back on my original return flight as normal.

>>1206796
where are you now?

Pizza is pretty good in central station at rossopomodoro

>>1206925
pizza in milan is for tourists!dont go to eat wherever the margherita costs more than 7 euros

>>1206610
>How do I score a girl in Barcelona?

Same way you do at home bro

>>1206612
I am just curious, do I have more chances with a local girl on Tinder or a tourist that speaks English? The tourist ones are usually in groups, so its kinda difficult to approach them.

>>1206610
>I have not had sex in a year
You're not going to have sex there then either.

>>1206538
Now or later? It is bloody cold now.

From February 17th - 21st

>>1206543
Skansen. Technically is a museum.

Dude, just go.
Great Britain is one of the most civilized places in the world.

Parts of London aren't, but it's better than all the other large European capitals.

In practical terms, the UK is much more safe than most of the European cities because they are very "centered". Unless you went to some Northern English sink estates looking for a fight you aren't going to end up in a bad way, it's clear when you're getting into a bad part of town because you can just see it. Unlike in Paris, for example, where you can just accidentally walk into one.

Visit: London, York, Bath, Oxford, Norwich, Leeds, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Harrogate, Bristol, rural Wales, North Yorkshire, all of the Home Counties.

Avoid: Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester.

>>1206489
Lol are you asian? Slant-eyes have been are afraid of their own shadows ever since you got bombed.

It isn't even remotely a shithole. That's media coverage. We're as first world as it gets. You'll be fine unless we have a civil war over this political crap.

>>1206448
I'll add that like any country if you choose to live somewhere in the ghetto to save a buck, you'll be living in squalor with bums and gangsters. Same as anywhere else.

Go for it. Those attacks are really not happening so often.
Worse case scenario is that you end up like snowden lol (network engeneer got it, ok, peace)

>>1206059
Just watch Portlandia.

>>1206059

A lot of nice local shops, Voodoo donuts and Powells Books, giant book store.
Also Casa diablo, the only vegan stripclub in the universe

>moving in a few months

Fucking leave, reeeeeeeee. The rent is bad enough as it is.

>>1206053
Read some sagas, that will enhance your enjoyment. Go to the Settlement Museum in Bogarnes and do both tours, or at least the Egil's Tour. I'd also suggest a stop at Snorristofa.

I don't know how much fun you'll have on that amount of money for that long. I do think maybe you'd enjoy camping in a campground, but 5000/60 is under $100USD per day. I think you need double that, if not triple because there will be days you spend to do things more than eat, and you'd really enjoy a car and normal places to sleep. There is nothing on the side of the road, but about 2 feet of gravel before it's not even walkable. I don't know how people camp. The hostels aren't inexpensive, especially at peak tourism. It's volcanic lava fields. Think holes. I'm sorry but I really don't think Iceland is a place you go to slum it and backpack. It's a place you go for 10-14 days if you can manage that, but you want to do what makes it a cool place, not avoid all those things while whining about money. Yes, you can skip breakfast, eat a N1 hotdog and instant coffee for lunch, but at dinner, you're going to spend. Forget about drinking on that budget. At. All.

I know almost nothing about Iceland but I would say go for it. Life is short and as far as I know you live just once. Shouldn't hard to go back home and find another job if all goes wrong. Most icelanders also speak English so I don't really think you will have a hard time getting by.

>>1206062
Thanks for the message.
Luckily I don't drink :P so I won't get caught in that trap I hear its awfully expensive. I plan to not stay in a hostel the entire time either and especially not in Reykjavík if I can help it as I know its a tourist trap, I was looking into getting to smaller towns where I've seen hostels considerably cheaper to attract tourists to stay outside Reykjavík. I have heard to avoid restaurants to at all costs. I would survive on what I can buy at Bónus as it goes at home I usually just eat once a day anyway and rarely have time to snack. Only thing I splurge on is coffee and cigarettes. However I have quit smoking this last week as to get ready to leave because I know I can't afford 15$ a day on something not useful.

As far as coffee goes I'll have to live without or make my own.

But yeah I'm looking into trying to stay primarily in Akureyri


>>1206064
haa thats okay, but thank you. Yeah I plan on coming home pretty broke but I have family that would help me out if I could find a job right away. Although I would want to get one quick so I could save up and go again! haa thanks

Some nigger tried to sell me drugs in roppongi.

Stay clear of that area guys. It's just a tourist trap.

So, I made an account at JP Bank.

Can I make a paypal account with said JP bank account?
And can I transfer money from home to the new paypal account?
And get that money from the said paypal account back on my JP Bank account?

I want to run a little blog with cancer donations at the bottom, you know. Getting free dosh from weeaboos for showing them anime titties.

>>1205580
you're dumb

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>>1205378
Nope. I have adventures with locals in Thailand. At a red light. Will detail when I get home. After I eat dinner

>>1205387
please do

The Bulldog in Leidseplein for the most authentic Coffee Shop experience in Holland.

The grasshopper near Damrak.

>>1205254
I read that the grasshopper is not allowed anymore to sell weed. Is it true?

Tunisia is fine, in Algeria there's certain parts of the country you should avoid if you don't want to get kidnapped (South, East, near the Tunisian border)

I wouldnt go anywhere near tunisia. Algeria only in the north east. I wouldnt wanna be close to libya at the moment. refugees fleeing from isis, hard to tell who is who, etc etc.

>>1206408
>cont.
terrorists have been trying to gain control of algeria and libya for 40 years. american troops just withdrew from libya i believe. I dont think all of africa's arma is fighting terrorists. There are probably different groups within libya and syria and shit trying to overthrow the government of algeria and tunisia, etc.

tldr; you might see some suicide bombings, maybe some civilian rebel shootings kind of things. The government is fuckin up over there

>>1204544
are you only going to be in LA?

I would probably just say avoid santa monica/ venice and sunset strip. its just super generic tourist traps with a lot of shops and restaurants that you'll find everywhere else in the states.

>>1204616
*LA only?

>>1204544
Go to Monterey park and Arcadia for the best Chinese food, avoid the Chinatown experience, it's a tourist trap.

Make sure to visit little Tokyo and koreatown, lots of great food there.

The observatory and the new museum of modern arts are fun too.

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>>1204289
>If it is so, how could I go from Russia to Georgia without using Sochi-Abkhazia and North Ossetia routes?
Never enter Georgia from these routes, it's considered an illegal entry by the Georgian authorities. Use the regular border between Vladikavkaz and Kazbegi.

Russian Caucasus is amazing from what I've seen, but I've only seen bits of Karachai-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. Friend of mine has, however, visited all the Caucasian republics, including Chechnya and Dagestan, without problems. Just police occasionally wondering what the fuck a foreigner was doing in bumhole nowhere Chechnya, and interrogating him for a few hours until they were sure he wasn't there to cause trouble. Pic is Kislovodsk.

>>1204329

One of my friends went to Abkhazia after I'd split off to Armenia. He didn't have any problems re-entering Georgia. I think he even posted a few pictures on Facebook holding an AK-47 that some separatists had let him toy around with.

>>1204289

I haven't been to the Russian Caucasus, but one of my former employers is from Krasnodar Krai. He's a member of an ethnic minority that's been discriminated against since the tsars wrested control of the region from the Ottoman Empire.

He recently went back home to visit relatives from September through November. I think he said that he took a ferry to Crimea. Apparently he was interrogated for a while because he's fluent in Russian but holds an American passport, but didn't have any problems otherwise. The impression I got is that the Crimea and Rostov regions are safe as long as you're not dicking around in a bad way.

Couldn't say for sure, though. His circumstances are obviously different than yours would be.

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>>1204389
>re-entering
That's the thing. You can enter from the Georgian side just fine, and return. Georgia takes no issue, as they consider you not the have even left the country. If you, however, enter from Russia, then continue into Georgia proper, you have entered the country illegally as far as the government is concerned.


Also
>after I'd split off to Armenia
is a typo I presume?