Thought it'd be interesting to list the languages I've found myself speaking along the trip....it's been helpful to learn a few words in local tongue everywhere...not just for communication, but for inciting amazingly deep smiles!
Hindi (Indian national language), Urdu (Pakistan national language), Burushaski (middle Hunza Valley, Pak autonomous region), Ughyur (used by locals such as our taxi driver when we crossed the border on the KKH in
Xinjiang autonomous region, China), Chinese (used in Xinjiang by non-Ughyurs), Arabic (Oman), Malayalam (Kerala, Indian language used in Oman - thanks to Sam in Muscat for teaching me), Turkish (first night in Oman happened to sit next to a man from Konya, go figure...), Sindhi (in the remote village of my 8 year old friend, Erum), Italian (9hours stop in Roma), French (bruxelles), Dutch (I haven't actually spoken in Dutch yet, but it's all around as I'm in the Flemish part of the Brussels outskirts), Malagache (also in Bruxelles, staying in an American/Madagascar household!)
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