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learning a few words isn't that hard i suppose. we all learned the swear words and pick up lines from diff languages from our buddies in school right? :P

i remember seeing a documentary of a young family moving to europe as the husband found work there. i think it was france or germany. they had a 3 year old and the wife had go to the doctor and get meds from the pharmacy. they really struggled and had issues there in that regards. i'd say stuff like that could become an issue.

i always thought of learning a language similar to learning an instrument. it uses a portion of the brain that not everyone is strong in, everyone's different. but if i could get by on 100 words like you say, that shouldn't be hard for most people, as we all had to take french in high school and i assume everyone here passed that