Have you ever had a problem with language whils visiting

>>1288062
Yeah, Mongolia was tough.

My phone couldn't do the keyboard so I couldn't translate both ways and English was rare and I didn't speak Russian.

>>1288062
In Moscow, I was going to ask for a Matryoshka, but I said devushka, wich means little girl.
the guy said he didn't sell that. I laughed really nervous for a lot of uncomfortably time, but ended up buying the Russian doll.

>>1288062
In Spanish, when you have a cold you are "constipado".
While living in Scotland, my pal went to the pharmacy and told the lass at the counter that he was "constipated".
So instead of getting his cold medicine, he took home a strong laxative and shat himself for a whole day.

>>1288062
Never a serious problem. Hand gestures and a few words, retrieved online or from a good-old-fashioned paper book, work wonders. I'm conversant in a lot of languages by most standards (working ability in six, faking-it ability in more than ten), and my native language is English, so I've been in comparatively few places where I really got stranded.

That said, China is a lot harder than I was expecting. The man in the street does NOT speak English, and while I am silly enough to have some Cantonese, I don't have more than a few words of Mandarin. Made getting around quite challenging sometimes. But I'm brave about sounding brain-damaged in foreign languages, so I muddled through.