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	This one should come as no surprise, but as part of the francophone world, the use of English language is rather limited in Sénégal. Learn at least some basic phrases in French (please, thank you, hello, goodbye, etc.), and use them liberally. [https://www.duolingo.com/ Duolingo] has beginner lessons for lots of languages and is completely free to use.		This one should come as no surprise, but as part of the francophone world, the use of English language is rather limited in Sénégal. Learn at least some basic phrases in French (please, thank you, hello, goodbye, etc.), and use them liberally. [https://www.duolingo.com/ Duolingo] has beginner lessons for lots of languages and is completely free to use.

			Even better than French however is learning some phrases in the actual local language: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language Wolof]. There are some minorities speaking yet other languages, like e.g. Serer, but Wolof seems to be the the local lingua franca of Senegal.