3 Essential Foreign Phrases to Learn Before You Go on Holiday

Claire Handscombe
2 min readOct 26, 2011

Aside from the obvious excuse me, please and thank you that it’s essential to learn before you step off a plane, there are three phrases I’d recommend genning up on before you go on holiday. After all, you probably won’t manage to absorb the entire phrase book on the two-hour flight, so it’s wise to pick the important ones.

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Claire Handscombe

Editor of WALK WITH US: How the West Wing Changed Our Lives; author of the novel UNSCRIPTED and of CONQUERING BABEL: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language.