{"id":1144,"date":"2011-05-27T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2011-05-15T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T14:08:41","slug":"a-new-language-for-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/a-new-language-for-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"A new language for holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Golden-Horn-Croatia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Golden-Horn-Croatia.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Golden Horn Croatia\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1145\" \/><\/a>As you read this blog post, I will hopefully be enjoying the sun in beautiful Croatia. I\u2019ve never been to the country before and have not encountered the language either.<\/p>\n<p>This had me wondering \u2013 how much of a language should you try and learn before a holiday?<\/p>\n<p>In the past I\u2019ve learned bits of Vietnamese, German, Greek and Malay whilst on holiday. Whilst on the plane to Vietnam, I listed to a beginners guide to the language in the form of a podcast. When trying to speak and listen to the language, however, I found I had forgotten most of what I had heard. <\/p>\n<p>With other languages I have picked up phrases whilst in country. These were enough to get by, along with liberal doses of sign language. As a native English speaker, I try and avoid the assumption that others will speak my language, but find that a lot of the time, they do!<br \/>\nBefore going to Croatia I will pick up a phrasebook and try and learn some basic phrases and greetings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr\/hrvatska\/language\/ \">These<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit-croatia.co.uk\/croatianfortravellers\/ \">websites<\/a> seem to be a good start for travellers to the country. Obviously it\u2019s not possible for me to become fluent in Croatian in a couple of weeks, but I will make some effort. <\/p>\n<p>How much of the language do you learn before going on holiday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you read this blog post, I will hopefully be enjoying the sun in beautiful Croatia. I\u2019ve never been to the country before and have not encountered the language either. This had me wondering \u2013 how much of a language should you try and learn before a holiday? In the past I\u2019ve learned bits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,415],"tags":[699,3,5,175,998,25,88,415],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-language-acquisition","category-vietnamese","tag-croatian","tag-english","tag-german","tag-greek","tag-holiday-languages","tag-languages","tag-malay","tag-vietnamese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}