If you want to travel and English is not your first language, learn it. I’m Polish, and classroom English was always a challenge. Yet, watching movies with subtitles and playing video games was enough to start my journey. Then, at 18, I did my first solo trip to Dublin, and it was the best real-world practice. Trip after trip I got better, as every conversation built my confidence and expanded my vocabulary. Two decades later, English is now my first language. An irreplaceable travel skill.
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