Saturday, June 13, 2009

A person can complain. And do that again.

Reading the reviews on a certain page about the hotel I work in I just can't stop sneering. One comment that people leave sounds mostly like this- "The receptionist can't speak my language!" Oh dear god! Could that person be more of an egoist? I'm sure it's the same regardless of the country. Neighbor countries should speak their language? In Estonia the biggest complainers are of course the Finnish and the Russians. Why the hell should You presume that all people in Estonia can speak Finnish and Russian; and that perfectly? It's humanly impossible to learn all the languages in the world! People make choices. Including the choice which language to learn at school. I chose the languages I felt I can speak easily and can be useful in the future. I haven't learned any Finnish at school, but at least I try to. And for that You start to complain? Learn ENGLISH!! That's the international language all should speak! I wonder why Latvians don't presume I speak Latvian as well? :p And we don't presume Latvians can speak Estonian? Paldies for that ;)

Out of the box, people, out of the box!

2 Comments:

At Monday, June 15, 2009 2:17:00 am , Blogger Brian Barker said...

Apparently President Obama wants everyone to learn a foreign language, but which one should it be?

The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish. Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Hindi, out of the equation.

It's time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations.

I would prefer Esperanto

Can I ask you to check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LV9XU


Detail can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

 
At Monday, June 15, 2009 2:24:00 am , Blogger Eliina said...

I don't like Esperanto. For me it was difficult. But maybe it's because I have no more room for extra languages in my brain.
I guess all we can do is still study the languages we want to.
All I was refering to was the stubbornness that some people show with not learning an another language at all.

 

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