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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I like the last reason over others.
From your profile I see that you are a Galician. Then in your area you don't have nearly as many foreign tourists as we do have over here (I envy the quality of tourism in Northern Spain... Spanish tourism  ).
If you lived here (Eastern Mediterranean Coast) you would notice two different patterns of behaviour among tourists:
- Germans do try to learn the language and to communicate, and many do speak at least some Spanish.
- Brits are too lazy to try, and even when they do they are not very successful to put it politely. |
I may be a Galician, but I do travel (in fact, I'm the flying Galician
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Yes, Brits don't even try to ... think, I know
Germans at least do try to learn some sentences in Spanish (well, not all Germans)
But this does not mean Spaniards should learn German because of German tourism. Think about this logic. Should average Parisians learn English because of thousands of Americans streaming into Paris every Spring and Summer? A different thing is if one works in the tourism industry, but Spaniards in general should do nothing with German tourists but being friendly. If many Germans keep visiting Spain year after year, it is them who should try and learn some Spanish, don't you think? I don't know any German who learnt Japanese because thousands of Japanese visiting Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich every year.