Not sure if it will be useful to anyone but if you are thinking of going somewhere strange this year, there is a great online language course you can take for almost every country.
The site is called BYKI (before you know it) and has the following languages
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Farsi
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Macedonian
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Vietnamese
on a free download... For those more adventurous, you can upgrade (cost $50) to the full version and is available via exe download so you get it immediately..