Great Quote From Love in The Time of Cholera
“Los idiomas hay que saberlos cuando uno va a vender algo -decía con risas de burla---. Pero cuando uno va a comprar, todo el mundo le entiende como sea.”
Fermina Diaz en la novela: "El amor en los tiempos del cólera" que es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, publicada en 1985.
“You have to know languages when you go to sell something,” she said with mocking laughter. “But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you.”
I love this saying. I take advantage of this. If I want to talk a little Spanish I go to a nearby Mexican restaurant that has friendly waiters, waitresses and bartenders. If I go for lunch at 2:00 or so in the afternoon they are not very busy so I am able to talk with them to my hearts content.
They seem to enjoy it also and although they almost always understand what I am trying to say they like to teach me how to say things they way they say them. When I return and I use some of what they have taught me they really seem to get a kick out of it.
