You don't need to know a lot of Spanish at all. And even if you know Spanish you probably won't get to use it because Dominicans have chopped it up, it's sort of a dialect of Spanish. If you want to speak like the locals you need to learn it from scratch. But DR is culturally geared towards tourism, you shouldn't have a problem communicating, regardless of where you are from. I have heard of people having issues in some parts of Mexico because they are foreigner. What you may have issues with in DR as a foreigner is with people wanting to over charge you for stuff because they think you can afford it, specially if you are Caucasian.
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