Treat travel time as study time. A regional train ride is a full vocabulary session; a café stop is one grammar exercise. Austrian cafés will let you sit for hours over one Melange, and that is culturally normal, not rude.
Download your audio before you leave. Signal drops in the valleys, and offline lessons mean the plan survives the trip.
Order in German every single time, even badly. Menus, tickets and ticket machines are the lowest-stakes speaking practice you will ever get.
Quick takeaways
- •20-minute pockets beat rare long sessions
- •Download lessons offline before mountain trips
- •Order in German every time — free speaking practice
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