4 years of Spanish in HS
4 semesters of Spanish in HS
Married for 27 years to a wife whose primary language "was" Spanish

Can't speak it with any fluency.  I'm convinced one needs to actually go to the country and don't revert to English to speak another language.

Along the lines that StroudCrowd1 noted, it's rather easy to travel without learning the native language.  First of all people now speak English in any decent sized city, AND Google Translation easily translates your statements into the selected language and can communicated the translation where needed in verbal or written form.  I've used this in France & Poland in the past.  Update after watching the video: I didn't know about Chat GBT tranlation but that's even much more sophisticated than my Google Translate.

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