Yes, we had that conversation upon boarding the train to Warsaw from Berlin. "Do you know any Polish words?", "No, do you?", "No. Oh well our handy and well used (not) Lonely Planet Phrase Book will have some tips for us." Ummmmm, no again. Doesn't even include Polish. "Okay, but everywhere else people have spoken English so we should have a problem right?", "Yeah, we'll be fine. Let's play cards for the next 6 hours", "Okay". Ummm well, English is not spoken by many people at all in Poland and what is more Polish is one of the hardest languages to learn. We had no idea what anything said and no one had any idea what we were saying. Excellent! We walked into a lunch bar on our first day and asked the lady at the
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