I have some friends who are abroad and are married to foreigners. One is in England and that is not much of a problem because Filipinos are generally good in English. The one in Japan had to learn Nihonggo before going to Japan for the marriage because, the husband said, speaking in Nihonggo is one rule in their family. Although it is expensive, that friend had enrolled in a tutorial class for conversational Japanese. Now she speaks like a Japanese. She told me that learning a language is difficult at first but it gets easier when you get the hang of it.