Travel gets a lot more interesting when you can speak the language — even just a little. Ordering dinner, asking for ...

And certainly, I’ve experienced this myself. I’ve traveled to 27 countries, and while many of them I either speak the language (French), or plenty of locals speak mine (English), there have been a lot ...

And certainly, I’ve experienced this myself. I’ve traveled to 27 countries, and while many of them I either speak the language (French), or plenty of locals speak mine (English), there have been a lot ...

Vietnamese, for example, was one of the lowest-ranked languages for speed, but each syllable encoded a lot of information.

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