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EPISODE · Jun 16, 2026 · 24 MIN

Is it worth learning a new language to travel?

from Life Matters - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Learning a few key phrases in Spanish or German — or wherever your destination was — used to be a right of passage when travelling overseas.However, now AI translators can do that for you almost instantly, and you can fairly confidently move around a foreign country without the language barrier. But there are so many cultural clues you can pick up by learning the language of the country you're in.

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