I've been in Portugal for the past couple of weeks (hence the lack of posts). I don't speak Portuguese (much), but that is largely irrelevant to travel in Portugal: most people there, at least those who work or interact with the tourism industry speak English.
And French.
And German.
In one hotel in Evora, the woman behind the reception desk easily greeted me in English, provided directions to the hotel over the phone in French, and then switched over to Portuguese again to ask a coworker about the breakfast setup. Wow. I've never seen anyone do anything like that. My own brain is far more sluggish: after just reading Portuguese for a couple of days, it refused to call up even the word for "thanks" in Spanish.
And oh, yeah, it was an awesome trip :)
Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Portuguese are impressive
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whenever i witness a multilingual display like that i always wonder why they aren't working at the UN or in the foreign office. and also, why we in the states can't do that too... por que?
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