[Jcampuzano2]

You may not be able to learn all of the culture, but if you're for example primarily living as a digital nomad in South America or other areas with a common language you for sure can pick up the language if you put in the effort.

I've lived my fair share of 90 day stints all over South America, and I did make the effort to learn Spanish. I started off 3-4 years ago with 0 Spanish and now I am non-native fluent. I can communicate clearly and don't have issues with speaking to natives and even have local friends in many of the places I have gone (I have revisited plenty of them more than once). I may not catch all the colloquialism of course, but I do try to learn them and the culture wherever I go (what is the local slang, preferred word choices, etc).

Unfortunately I do know a lot of Digital Nomads who unlike myself basically never learn the local language and stick to their bubble of other english speaking nomads. I think this is sort of a shame personally.

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Huh. I guess that is possible in the Americas, and maybe Africa, where multiple adjacent countries share a common tongue. I was thinking more about Asia where the national languages are more distict from each other as well as from English.