Learn Some Spanish Holiday Words

In Mercadona I find being English an embarrasment sometimes. Now we werent in "Puerto Banus" where some people say everyone should speak English.

We were in Mercadona in Los Naranjos near El Angel an extremely Spanish Area where maybe some of the people that work there live. Now many of these people that work in Mercadona I have spoken to and they went to the local schools and many dont speak English...why would they? They are Spanish living in Spain.

Do you think there is ANYONE that goes into Tescos and Says...¿Cuanto? ¿Que? ¿Donde esta Arroz? NO THEY DONT.

So at the till the other day, an Irish Lady packing up her bags, the girls says 17€uros. "HOW MUCH?. WHAT? HOW MUCH DID YOU SAY....its an embarrasment.

Its like any supermarket, just look at the numbers on the till...the money is the same just has the name Euros. Its not like having Pesetas or Shillings anymore. If you dont speak Spanish - FINE but you can enter a supermarket, get your stuff and buy it and you dont need to say anything. Just look at the cash till.

Then on the other till were some Scandinavians...who didnt speak Spanish but spoke great English! The same - HOW MUCH? WHAT?

Many Spanish people wont recognise the accent and will just assume many people speaking English are English.

Come on, its not that hard to learn a couple of words like Hola, Gracias, Adios.

In England there is the debate that if any foreigners are going to live in England they should speak ENGLISH...I bet the first people to agree to that are many of those people who cant say 1 word in Spanish.