Tips for traveling to a country where you do not speak their language
There are many awesome travel destinations across the globe for tourists across the world to spend your vacation and, also several historical sites to visit. But the facts is that many travellers prefer to visit a country that speaks and understands their languages better, than to goa country where it would be difficult to communicate the community people. We all know that it is easy to interact with people and make friends when you can speak their language. This barrier has stopped many from visiting the destinations of their choice, because they do not understand their language, their phobia is that they will find it difficult to interact with the people in the community they propose to visit. If there is no effective communication, your travel experience will not be fun filled.
There is no problem without solution, but the right information is difficult to find. Today I’m going to be discussing with you, how to break this barrier that been stopping you to visit that destination of your dream.
Learn Basic words
You can never how smart you are, until you try something out. Before you visit that speak different language from the language you understand, try to learn some basic local words like “help, what is this place, I’m lost, please, goodbye, yes, no, restaurant, toilet among some other important words. Try to learn some basic words in local language for you to be able to make friends in the community. One of the universal word is toilet. Not all people across the globe understood the word restroom, so it is better you use toilet instead of the word ‘restroom.
Speak with gestures
Gestures has to do with using the part of the body to pass information. Pointing and miming to get your messages across to who is concerned. Also, study and learn how to use gesture to greet the people in the community has this will portray to them that you love their community. Forget about looking silly when you are demonstrating, for example you need chicken but you do not understand, you can demonstrate with your hand inform of feather, though it may look silly but it will get you what you want.
Book a Tour
If you do not want to go through all this stress of learning languages, you can book a tour with agency. Book a full length well organized tour to get a tour guide that will guide you through everything you want in English. You will have someone around you every time that you will tell whatever is needed to be done, where you want to go and what you want to buy. You will feel save doing this. But it is also better if you could learn few basic local language to get familiar with the people of that community.