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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]  On Behalf
Of David Hough
Sent:   Friday, June 27, 2003 9:35 AM
To:     GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
Subject:        Re: Guides

It is true tha French helps some in Spain, but I am
certainly glad for what little Spanish I learned.
Since nobody was expecting an American in France in
April, and not many in Spain in May, I found when I
was traveling alone, and thus not giving clues by
talking to other people, it was
assumed by the French that I was Dutch and by the
Spanish that I was French.

The problem with phrase books is that if you say
something too perfectly you might likely get a too
perfect answer that you don't understand.    I did
better speaking French with Spaniards because they
tended to speak at about my level.

--- "Crawley, Jeffrey"
<jeffrey.crawleyaFABERMAUNSELL.COM> wrote:
> 50 words already, my goodness, you certainly can't
> be English then!!
>
> While it's nice, and polite too, to be able to speak
> in Spanish it won't be vital. Por favor and muchas
> gracias go a long, long way and pointing, which
> worked well enough for you when you were 2 years
> old, certainly hasn't gone out of fashion yet.
>
> A friend lent me some Spanish tapes to learn from in
> the car on the way in from work (Hugo's Spanish at
> the Wheel - a bit dated what with border controls
> etc, but quite good) and that worked OK.  I speak
> reasonable but un-grammatic French having owned a
> house there for some years and found I use French
> more than Spanish in the early stages from SJPP.
>
> A decent, but light, phrase book would help but, for
> the most part, a few stock phrases will suffice.
> Mainly "Dónde está(n)" - where is/are - ¿Dónde está
> la farmacia? <where is the chemists/pharmacy>.
>
> Can I point you towards the BBC's language pages?
>
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/spanish/quickfix/index.shtml
>
> and a general search for Spanish phrases on the
> internet can bring some useful, and some surprising,
> results.
>
> Perhaps we could all contribute our favoured phrases
> for a Pilgrims' Phrase Book?
>
> regards
>
> Jeffrey
>
> ¿hay unas flechas amarillas por aqui?
>
> PS bumped into (literally) de Coelho coming out of
> church in Puenta la Reina in September '01 - he was
> travelling with a Japanese TV crew.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinsey Carpenter [mailto:KCarpenteraCMINS.COM]
> Sent: 26 June 2003 14:51
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Guides
>
>
> Recent on line chat regarding the need to know some
> Spanish has me a tad bit concerned as I know no more
> than 50 Spanish words. My departure for the Camino
> is mid-September. I'm rushing to get my work
> responsibilities in order so that I can be
> incommunicado with my office for 5 weeks. Hence, no
> time to learn any Spanish,  "Are bilingual guides
> available? I read "The Pilgrimage" by Paulo Coelho
> and was, of course, intrigued by his guide Petrus.
> Please share with me your comments and
> recommendations as to how I would go about finding a
> guide.
> >
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