I’ve done it in Arabic, Lao, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. I gained language functionality in these foreign tongues with minimal, yet consistent, easy effort. Functional isn’t conversational. Functionality is using practical words for ordinary situations. Here we’re reminded to learn hello
Tag: learning
![Dumplings for sale at a night market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. From post: Thai Sounds With Food Words: Memory Enhancement Through Imagination](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Night-Market-Scene-in-Chiang-Mai-1.jpg)
After virtual teleportation up and across the grand globe, and finally touching down in Southeast Asia’s humongous hub of Bangkok, I was unsurprisingly bombarded with the Thai language. Bangkok is a city of around 15 million people, so there’s no shortage of eavesdropping
![Survival Spanish in seven days. A sign in Spanish and English in the lushly forested foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Minca, Magdalena, Colombia.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Forest-Sign-Minca-Resized.jpg)
Imagine traveling to sultry South America, somewhere near its northernmost tip. The climate, geography, way-of-life and language are different; yet it is a tropical wonderland in the backyard of the USA’s southeast. It can be reached in under three hours from the Florida