In my opinion, travelling is more fun and so much easier if you speak the language, even if only a little bit. My Spanish is shit, but I managed well when I was

In my opinion, travelling is more fun and so much easier if you speak the language, even if only a little bit. My Spanish is shit, but I managed well when I was in Argentina. Had some good conversations, met cool people. I found that having a good vocabulary is far more important than having proper grammar. Lucky for us they speak Spanish in so many places. After that trip I went directly to Brazil, where I encountered a sharp language barrier, and had a much worse time. Now I feel like I should at least know the basics before travelling somewhere. As soon as I got home I started studying Japanese.