Language Barriers

My eldest is just about to wrap up a semester of study in Rome. It's been a great opportunity considering her field of study, but—aside from being thousands of miles away from home—it also happens to be a country in which she doesn't speak the language (she's pretty good at Latin, but I understand they don't speak that much there any more). Nonetheless, through a combination of her classes, her friends, a smattering of helpful natives, and the universality of sign language, she's managed pretty well.