Cactus Language Training Will Tell You How to Acquire a Foreign Language for Travel

Whether you have simply a smattering of a foreign language, or are fluent in it, you will surely admit that the ability to understand or to be understood in a foreign language is often the key to extensive, profound or meaningful travel. In fact, the study of foreign languages is so associated with travel that I'm amazed I had not earlier heard of Cactus Language Training ( www.cactuslanguagetraining.com ).

It collects under one website dozens upon dozens of language-learning courses -- from one-on-one lessons to groups to schools -- all across the world -- 30 languages in 500 destinations spread over 60 countries.  While the site focuses on the five major European languages, if you will click on "Study Abroad" and dig a bit, you'll discover you can learn Mandarin, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Quechua... you name it. And the price for doing so seems entirely reasonable, although those costs vary sharply according to the language, place, and school or course you choose.

The site also has a great deal of related information: what to see and do in the destinations, how to choose accommodations, what the different kinds of courses are like, and what each offers. I'm impressed with Cactus.