A tourist "gringo" is lost in the center of a Spanish-speaking country.
Desperately question to a group of bystanders "Sorry, do you speak Inglés?". Messrs. 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 unusual language speaking tourist, another replies "No sir espique not that!" But the tourist not happy with the response returns to the fray. This time it's the turn into French: "Excuse moi, parlez vous francais?" And this time all I get in response is a hand gesture that indicates exactly the same as the two previous answers.
Frustrated tourists leaves crestfallen and trying to find better luck asking a young man smoking a cigarette is not far.
then one member of the group said: "Have you seen this gringo"! "How many languages do you speak"! and another replied: "Well, you see to it that served!" resonates general laughter and group retreats between revelry and laughter. More ... Whoever believes that the story ends here is wrong. This story is a joke that went prowling the Web for some time. And while I could also reap quite a few laughs with it, I do it with one eye laughing and one crying.
It turns out that the young man smoking the cigarette did speak English, and finally turns accompanying the gringo to your hotel and part of your business card gives a good tip to assist in such a dire situation.
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Years later, that 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 happening constantly and not just Spanish-speaking countries. In the world.
Often people begin to learn to speak a language that really do not believe that will affect their lives positively. Still believe they are the threads and contacts that define the fate of each of us. However there are many "gringos" who think otherwise. Just want to meet people from another country without the surname mediate, class, studies and other ingredients of the formal and informal curriculum.
The major impediment is "language". How to know what I think if I can not express it? How me know if I have any "platform" to do?
Another myth widely publicized is that of "lucky breaks." And perhaps here contradict me a bit, because this young man in the story above was benefited by one. But, and here the big question similar to the chicken and egg (what comes before?) What comes first: the stroke of luck and then the famous "English classes" or the first "English classes" and then the fluke?
But the question is badly done! The right question is: In what way increase the odds of being a beneficiary of a "lucky"? And I go further still, is there a possibility of self promote them?
Finally, if we formulate the relevant questions correctly got 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 respond to that fundamental question we can hardly claim that life change us according to what we believe is right and desirable.
Seen from a viewpoint away of our everyday cares and worries is easy: Just do it! Report a famous slogan in English ..
do not know the story behind that slogan?
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