{"id":97,"date":"2011-04-30T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:13:37","slug":"language-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Language Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I talk about traveling to other people sometimes they look at me in shock and say, &#8220;You went to Cambodia? Do you speak Cambodian?&#8221;  I always explain to them that I don&#8217;t speak anything in Cambodian. The usual response is a blank stare as if I were crazy.  I know some people think that I&#8217;m crazy, but I know that as a reader of this blog you agree with me completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You should never let a language stop you from traveling.<\/strong> Probably the most difficult place to navigate that I&#8217;ve ever been is Russia.  As you know they use the Cyrillic alphabet in Russia.  Their letters look somewhat similar to ours, but not completely alike.  Before I went to Russia I spent two or three days looking at the letters learning how to pronounce each of the letters.  By the end of a few days of studying I felt pretty confident in most letters. Obviously I didn&#8217;t take into account the fact that their average word is much longer than ours.  I would get started pronouncing something, and wouldn&#8217;t make it to the end of the word because I had gotten lost.  <\/p>\n<p>By a few hours of studying I was at least able to do some pronunciation and able to navigate a little bit.  Sometimes I would get on the subway in Moscow, which is amazing, and take the train in one direction.  I would get off at the next stop to make sure that I was headed in the right direction.  I didn&#8217;t care that it was taking more time to get to my destination because I could ride the subway in Moscow from stop to stop and look at all of the decorations and tiles, and statues, ect.  It is an amazing experience.  I know that might come to a shock to you if you&#8217;ve ever been to NYC.  The New York subway usually smells like an armpit and looks like one too.  This is not the case in Moscow.  A simple google search will show you some of the stops.  I recommend you explore a little bit, and then book your tickets. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave comments and explain to us how your traveling experiences have been in regards to language.  <\/p>\n<p>Blue Sky from American Express\u00ae. This is my staple card. 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