You can definitely skip learning the local language these days if you’re just a short-term tourist. Translate anything written with OCR, and for most other things just smile, point, fingers for numbers, and again machine translation is totally fine for simple things.
If you actually assume people can speak English though, that’s not cool.
Yup, if someone comes to me in the street asking if I know English, I’ll do my best effort to help them, no problem. If they come speaking in English asking the question? Fuck off, you are not entitled to get help.
You can definitely skip learning the local language these days if you’re just a short-term tourist. Translate anything written with OCR, and for most other things just smile, point, fingers for numbers, and again machine translation is totally fine for simple things.
If you actually assume people can speak English though, that’s not cool.
Yup, if someone comes to me in the street asking if I know English, I’ll do my best effort to help them, no problem. If they come speaking in English asking the question? Fuck off, you are not entitled to get help.