Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jimmi5bellies
Even at the hospitals all the leaflets are printed bilingual. Funny that really cause in any other country if you didnt understand the language it meant you are a foreigner and you would have to pay for your medicals and treatments.
|
i spent 2 days walking around chemists and hospitals in barcelona looking to replace medical supplies that had been left at manchetser airport
there was no english text on any of the sighns and most of the people in the hospitals and chemists didnt speak english or very little so i got by and eventualy got what i was after
bloody expensive as well so i made do with my own variation of what i needed , i shoulda got a blue peter badge
throughout the holiday i picked up bits and peices of basic spanish and although at places like train stations and shops in tourist areas they spoke good english they appreared to either appreciate or be amused at my attempts to speak their language
however there was a bit of confusion on teh metro ( underground) when i was approached by what i thought were beggars and i pushed them away
turned out they were armed police and i apparently looked like the guy they were after . Fair do's to them as well coz they tried 2 other languages before they got to english
oh and i soon learned how to say no after i was approached by a rastafarian prostitue in barcelona lol , apparently my advice to my friend to try not looking like a tourist dosnt work
edit:
oh yeah my point is , put other languages on signs at hospitals and tourism information desks etc but levae the rest alone , if your gonna live here learn english