I am not sure about you but one of my main motivations for learning languages is travel. While it’s fine to use the language online or have a pen-friend (I’ve never really had one), what’s the use of knowing a language if you never actually speak it?
Speaking a language in its country is pretty awesome, though. I have tried speaking the language  (in probably that order in time)  in Germany (I speak poor German), France, Italy (Italian not too good either), Portugal, …

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