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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3351125" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Quite a few younger people do, fluency varies.&nbsp; It&#039;s becoming the preferred second language instead of Russian throughout the region.&nbsp; My Airbnb owner speaks limited English but his doctor wife speaks it better than I do.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been given an English menu in a couple of restaurants so far.&nbsp; But definitely a good idea to know how to read Cyrillic.&nbsp; My wife and I will probably end up in either Albania or Georgia, both of which allow Americans a year stay.&nbsp; A former Georgian president was Harvard trained and he had street signs put in both Georgian and English and brought in several thousand English teachers to teach in schools across the country.&nbsp; English for those under thirty is common there.&nbsp; With our retiree discount I flew from Orlando to London for $167 on United and had no problem getting on standby.&nbsp; And with discount airlines in the States and Europe I literally got half way around the world for $700 and would&#039;ve spent considerably less if I hadn&#039;t gone all the way to Kazakhstan.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3351125, member: 24302"] Quite a few younger people do, fluency varies. It's becoming the preferred second language instead of Russian throughout the region. My Airbnb owner speaks limited English but his doctor wife speaks it better than I do. I've been given an English menu in a couple of restaurants so far. But definitely a good idea to know how to read Cyrillic. My wife and I will probably end up in either Albania or Georgia, both of which allow Americans a year stay. A former Georgian president was Harvard trained and he had street signs put in both Georgian and English and brought in several thousand English teachers to teach in schools across the country. English for those under thirty is common there. With our retiree discount I flew from Orlando to London for $167 on United and had no problem getting on standby. And with discount airlines in the States and Europe I literally got half way around the world for $700 and would've spent considerably less if I hadn't gone all the way to Kazakhstan. [/QUOTE]

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