Zih Only Place For Me

As a long-time or permanent resident in any foreign country it would certainly behoove one to make an effort to learn the local language. As a visitor for a couple of weeks, not so much, IMOH. And then there's also the problem of not having an ear for language. At my first job at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in 1962, there was an Italian waiter who moved to the States before the war, whose English was barely understandable.