Why is it important to know about languages?

A tourist "gringo? is lost in the heart of a Spanish speaking country.

Desperate question to a group of bystanders "Sorry, do you speak Espanol??. Lords look at each other amazed and after exchanging a few words one of them replied "No. Sorri, do not speak English? The tourist insists and asks "Sprechen Sie Deutsch? The wonder grows between the group and then to guess and speculate that they would be talking strange language tourists, another replies, "No sir espique not that!? But tourists are not happy with the response returns to the load. This time it's the turn of the French? Excuse moi, Parlez vous francais? And this time the only response you get is a hand gesture indicating exactly what the two previous answers.

Frustrated tourists head down and walks away, trying to find better luck asking a young man smoking a cigarette is not far away.

Then one of the members of the group said: "Have you seen this gringo?! "How many languages ​​you speak?! and another replied: "Well, see to it that served!? It echoes a general laugh and the group is removed from merriment and laughter.

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He who believes that here the story ends is wrong. This story is a joke that went prowling the Web for some time. And while I could harvesting also quite a few laughs with it, do it with one eye and another crying laughing. It turns out that this young man, smoking a cigarette did speak English, and finally is accompanying the gringo to your hotel and part of your business card gives you a good tip to assist in such a dire situation.

Years later, this young man has become the exclusive representative of products that "gringo? had the intent to distribute in the country. What began with a simple question changed his life.

That's not a joke. It is a truth that is going on continuously and not only in Spanish speaking countries. In the world.

Many times people begin to learn to speak a language not believe that it really will affect their lives positively. Yet the belief persists that are the threads and contacts that define the fate of each one of us. However there are many "gringos? who think otherwise. They just want to meet people from another country without mediating the name, social class, studies and other ingredients of the formal and informal curriculum.

The major impediment is "the language?. How do I know what I think if I can not express it? How to know if me I have no "platform? to do so?

Another widely circulated myth is that of "lucky breaks?. And perhaps contradict me here a little, because this young man's story was mentioned above benefited from one. But and here the big question similar to the chicken and the egg (what comes before?) What comes first: the stroke of luck and then the famous "English classes?, Or first the" English lessons ? and then the fluke?

Yet the question is wrong! The correct question is: In what way increase the odds of being a beneficiary of a "grand slam? And even go further, is there a chance to promote yourself?

Finally, and if properly formulate relevant questions come to the last question, the most important of all. Do I really want to change my life? Or just let me continue dragging the circumstances according to their whims? And if so for how long? Because that can last a lifetime.

Whatever we do, if we do not answer the fundamental question we can hardly claim that life change us according to what we believe is right and desirable.

Seen from a perspective far removed from our everyday cares and worries is easy: Just do it! He points to a famous slogan in English ..

You'll never know the history behind that slogan?