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How much fluency do you really need to make your way as a short-term tourist though? It's not hard to familiarize yourself with the basic pleasantries and key phrases in a couple of weeks, and that's always been sufficient (with a bit of miming) to get me through as an American with no foreign language skills to speak of. 2 years of high school spanish and 22 years of living in Southern California lets me travel around much of Mexico without too much trouble, even without resorting to English, but no one would praise my public school Spanish education as particularly comprehensive or effective.
Or do you mean you're capable of muddying through actual conversations with locals beyond basic transactions, directions, etc.?
The latter. My wife does the former studying up on the flight to whatever country we're going. I'm sure having perfunctory prior knowledge helps but that isn't really what I'm talking about, but I guess it's a sliding scale.
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