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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
I did interact a little with Iraqi police and soldiers who mostly had tourist level English at least.
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Is 'tourist-level' Broken or Accented in game terms?
I've been a tourist in some countries where I wouldn't even qualify for Broken*, but on the other hand, most tourists I meet seem to speak Accented or better
English, which is after all the lingua franca of our times. Of course, some of them
are American.
*Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic are good examples of places where I would have been completely lost if it weren't for locals who spoke English or German.
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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
There was an operation that I didn't get to go on (a victim of my own expertise; I was training forward observers) where the Marines lived in a village. Apparently the village store took dollars. The local merchants on the FOB obviously spoke English and took dollars (as well as the AAFX "pogs" that they used instead of coins).
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Most likely vendors accepting dollars is fairly widespread, but getting change might be harder and you have to accept whatever exchange rate the local decides makes it worth his while.