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Did you find many locals that spoke english during Badlands?
When I did Transiberica, I literally only knew "dos cervezas por favor", I think I learn "xirri mirri" and "bon dia" while at the start in Bilbao and then most of the race I was using Conversation Mode in Google Translate and probably picked up stuff like "agua", "comida" and some numbers along the way.
Badlands I'd been doing Duolingo for 12 months so I could do things like "Quiero tres botella de agua por favor, ooh mucho frio por favor! Tu tienes comida?" but the only thing I could remember how to order was "jamon y queso bocadillo" so that was all I ate.
Maybe in the start/finish of Granada there was more english speakers (not in our hotel though) like restaurants but then my missus was there and she'd already got better at Spanish in half the time just with Duolingo. So, I don't remember any English speaking going on - oh almost certainly some in the hotels I used later on.
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That BBC thing seems like an exam revision. It was just too clarify the 'desde hace'. But there're possibly thousands of rules and exceptions like that one.. not to discourage anyone from learning though. I believe it's just more practical to understand the spoken language and then learn to say some basic stuff.
Did you find many locals that spoke english during Badlands?