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Do I need to learn some Spanish before my camino? Yeah, you probably should...
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[QUOTE="Anamya, post: 1160023, member: 8788"] The above advice of learning at least some basic phrases is surely the best thing anyone can do. It's polite, it opens doors, it makes the entire difference for you and for the people you engage with. I'm not a native English speaker, but I do speak 3 languages fluently and other 2 quite well. Translation and interpreting are part of my work duties, and reading the initial post, this was the part that got me: It costs nothing and only takes a few minutes if you don't mind spending money to print menus that sell "Angry Potatoes" (and these days, risk becoming a joke on the internet). If you really want your clientelle to understand how amazing your food can be, it requires a fair amount of work. (On a funny note, my husband is of East Asian heritage, and I always ask him to read menus for me, because the amount of "beef with vegetables and sauce" we find is astounding.) But speaking as an interpreter: it's not hard speaking a foreign language if you are familiar with it. But it is EXTREMELY hard and mentally tiring to quickly change from one language to another in a short period of time. If you are getting order from tables, changing from Spanish (Castillian) to English, to Gallego, and back to English, is brain-frying. So, be kind to your waiters, receptionists, hospitaleros, drivers. Try something in broken Spanish and give them that little time to sync with you. And kindness is usually replied with kindness, if words are missing. [/QUOTE]
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