Have you ever had the experience of traveling to a foreign country and struggling to communicate with the locals because you didn’t know their language? I remember the first time I visited Spain, a country that I had been fascinated with for years. It was a bit overwhelming. Before departure, I didn’t worry about not knowing Spanish because I thought I could get away with speaking Italian given the similarity of the two languages, and at worst I would have spoken English. As soon as I landed, I felt like I was missing out on so much because I couldn’t understand or speak the language. But as the days passed,…