If we’ve heard it said once, we’re heard it a million times: “Don’t worry about the language thing. They all speak English over there.” We’ve even heard one man crass enough to say that if you waved an American twenty dollar bill (he called it a “handy Andy”), anyone in the world could understand your English. While he may have had a point about American money, albeit a crude one, he really kind of missed the point. He figured all he needed to travel abroad were travelers’ checks and travel insurance.
First of all, understand that English is widely spoken around most of the world. Where it isn’t th