Duolingo users?

[sultanofsuede]

I’ve been on a kick lately and it think it is building some decent skills for me. But I was curious if anyone used it long enough to take a trip to a foreign country and communicate in a meaningful way in that host language.

I know you can get by with English almost everywhere, but if I had the choice to try to speaks the native language , I would. Just not sure I can trust duolingo to get me very far.

Any cool duolingo (or babbel, whatever) success stories ?