It's travel guidebook boilerplate: Learn some of the language when you travel abroad. Personal rule of thumb on The Five Most Important Words: yes, no, please, thank you and beer.
You can find blogs about learning Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Swedish at Transparent Language. Today, this sentence alone: "... I am leading an extremely fabulous life as a Master student of Russian Literature living in a small dorm room with a Korean and a guinea pig...." makes the Russian blog worth reading.
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