So far that has only been a problem once. For the most part I have either been to places in Norway or been in USA or UK at adult age. I was in Denmark when I was 9 though, and I could only understand the odd word. Written Danish isn’t too unfamiliar but its pronunciation is very different from Norwegian so I had (and have) great difficulties understanding spoken Danish. Of course I was with my parents most of the time, but when we visited Legoland for instance it was a problem that I couldn’t understand the instructions given at some of the attractions. It didn’t make me long for experiencing that kind of confusion again.
Uhm, I think I’m so much of a control freak that I need to understand the language myself.
The next person would like to go on a long boat trip.