How To Know When You Should Learn A New Language

The biggest regret I have in my many years of travel is not learning the local language in countries I’ve ended up staying for thelong term. I would be more than conversational in Polish and Russian today if I just adhered to one simple rule: learn the language of a country you have been in for two weeks or longer. This means that you start your language studies on day fifteen of any trip.

Even if you’re doing a short one-month trip to a country, you should still make attempts to study the la...