I've just never been approached by men from any race

That seems interesting to me. As a woman myself, there is not a damn place that I or either of my two teenaged daughters can walk without getting a comment quite frequently, and I don't think of us as exceptionally beautiful or sexy.

Have you considered approaching your girlfriends, your hairdresser, whomever for some personal makeover ideas? It may be that you're dressing and presenting yourself in such a way that everyone assumes you don't want to be approached in any way.

There are ways that I can dress — baggy sweater, yoga pants, hair I did nothing with — that mean that the comments become pretty rare, yet when I dress other ways — V-necked tops, flippy dress or skirt, hair blown out and subtle eye makeup — I routinely have to remind men I see in boring minor transactions that "Excuse me, but my face is up here."

I'm also assuming you're saying the whole "deficient vocabulary" to mean that you don't speak the local language very well. So, engage in a language exchange, where you practice their language for half an hour and they practice English with you for half an hour.

It's very easy for students on study abroad to rarely leave the company of other Americans, which is, as you might imagine, not the point of study abroad.

I'm puzzled because I was going through your posting history to see where you might be studying abroad — standards on casual flirtations are wildly different among Germans and Brits than they are among the Italians and Greeks, you know? — and I see that you posted frequently to a sugarbaby reddit forum and talk about ex-boyfriends.

I'm not judging there, but I have to say that if you're capable of finding sugar daddies and boyfriends, I imagine you know what tends to cause a drop-dead let-me-kiss-the-ground-you-walk-on kind of reaction.