I live as an expat in China. I can't speak the local language, but apparently the apps store wants me to change my region and langauge in order to use it. What do I do?

So, I currenlty live in China without knowing Chinese. The app store is telling me that I can't downlaod from the Chinese store, and if I change region apparenlty I also change language. So I'm feeling pretty ****** over here. What do I do? I live in a country that I don't know the local language of, and feel pretty much screwed.
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But yeah, I need access to the Chinese store, in ENGLISH. I dunno what to do. Apparently I can either stick to the US store, and therefore not download anything ever again while I'm here, or use the Chinese store and only get apps in Chinese that I can't understand crap from.
I mean what, do I need to start downloading my apps from The Pirate Bay or something? This is insane. I can't adapt to this change.

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