Experience inadequacy and confusion when you go out, try to grapple with vastly different public transport systems, inadvertently miss bill payments because the sheer volume of foreign administrative mail takes literally days to wade through. Be misunderstood for your communication and have people shout louder at you thereby triggering your childhood trauma. And then spend even more years trying to learn the language starting with 'Lesson 1: how to buy an apple' instead of the more useful topic 'Lesson 367: dealing with online banking and tax declarations.'
I know what a fucking apple is and how to buy it, since apples and currency work the same in pretty much every language.
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