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How Much Italian Do You Need to Live in Rome?
The honest answer for expats, relocators, and long-term visitors: what you can get away with, what you can't, and what's actually worth learning before you land.
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Before you move, the real question is not "how do I learn Spanish." It is "how much Spanish do I actually need to live in Mexico City without it being miserable." Those are different questions, and most language content answers the first one while expats are asking the second.
This series answers it city by city: what level gets you through the airport, the apartment hunt, and the first grocery run. What level you need for a lease, a doctor's visit, or a real conversation with a neighbor. Where the line sits between technically functional and actually comfortable, and how long it realistically takes to cross it.
Eighteen guides cover every city StreetTongue teaches: Mexico City, Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Medellín for Spanish, Paris and Montreal for French, Rome and Milan for Italian, Tokyo and Osaka for Japanese, Lisbon, São Paulo, and Rio for Portuguese, plus Berlin, Bangkok, Istanbul, and Seoul.
Each guide maps to a specific level inside the app, so once you know what you are aiming for, you know exactly what to practice first. If you are further along and want the vocabulary that actually gets used once you arrive, the Dialect Guides go deeper.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Korean Do You Need to Live in Seoul?
The honest answer: less than you fear for daily survival, more than you expect for real life. Here is what each level actually gets you in Seoul.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Italian Do You Need to Live in Milan?
The honest answer on Italian fluency for Milan: what you can do at zero, what breaks without it, and the specific things worth learning before you land.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Japanese Do You Need to Get By in Osaka?
The honest guide to Japanese proficiency for Osaka. What each level actually gets you in a city where the dialect is different from everything you studied.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much French Do You Need to Live in Montreal?
The honest answer to Montreal French requirements by proficiency level: what you can do, what you cannot, and what to learn before you land.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Turkish Do You Actually Need in Istanbul?
The honest answer to how much Turkish you need for daily life in Istanbul: from zero words to comfortable street fluency, level by level.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Spanish Do You Need to Live in Buenos Aires?
The honest answer, level by level: what you can actually do in Buenos Aires with zero Spanish, survival phrases, basic conversation, and real fluency.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Japanese Do You Need to Live in Tokyo?
The honest answer to the question every Tokyo-bound expat asks. From zero words to comfortable daily life, here is what each level actually gets you.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Portuguese Do You Need to Live in São Paulo?
The honest answer to how much Portuguese you actually need to get by, work, and live well in São Paulo. Level by level, neighborhood by neighborhood.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Portuguese Do You Need to Live in Rio de Janeiro?
The honest answer on Portuguese for Rio: what you can do at zero words, what survival phrases actually unlock, and where the language gap really hurts.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Spanish Do You Need to Live in Medellín?
The honest answer about Spanish fluency in Medellín: what level gets you by, what gets you in, and what actually matters before you land.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Spanish Do You Need to Live in Madrid?
The honest answer on how much Spanish you actually need in Madrid: from zero words to comfortable daily life, level by level.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Portuguese Do You Need to Live in Lisbon?
The honest answer to how much Portuguese you actually need in Lisbon, level by level, from zero words to comfortable daily life.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much Spanish (or Catalan) Do You Need in Barcelona?
The honest answer to how much language you actually need to live, work, and thrive in Barcelona, and what to learn before you arrive.
· Dax · Expat SurvivalHow Much German Do You Actually Need to Live in Berlin?
Berlin runs on English in the expat bubble. But German opens the rest of the city. Here is the honest level-by-level breakdown, plus the specific words Berlin will throw at you that no textbook covers.