Except without the dictionary, yeah! I've also had similar situations in French. Unlike Japanese, I actually have a noticeable amount of French, so those discussions were always in that language rather than in English. I carried a pocket dictionary for the times my vocabulary wasn't up to the challenge. I learned a few odd food words by looking things up at dinner.
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