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> people across the world are more likely to know broken English than even a single word of Mandarin Several years ago I went to a resort town in Egypt, and al
by aasasd 5y ago
> people across the world are more likely to know broken English than even a single word of Mandarin
Several years ago I went to a resort town in Egypt, and all Egyptians working around the hotels there spoke Russian, because there were lots of Russian tourists. Later I've been told that just a few years prior to that, everyone spoke English instead. Apparently money talks in a more literal sense too.
- bradknowles 5y agoTry taking a vacation on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. We did. We found out too late that Ischia was the island that mostly Germans went to after WWII, so most people there spoke at least decent German on top of their native Italian, but very few knew English. If you’re an English speaker, you want to go to the nearby island of Capri. That’s apparently where most US and UK service personnel went on vacation. The nearby Amalfi coast was frequented more by speakers of a third language, but by the time we got to touring the Amalfi coast we were just so exhausted from all the trying to communicate on Ischia that we kind of just gave up.