Today I went grocery shopping.
Shopping at home can be boring.
In a foreign country, it’s an adventure.
Georgian is not just a foreign language, it’s a foreign alphabet.
I needed butter and found something that looked like butter.
It was between the milk and the cheese.
Probably butter.
But I thought I better ask someone just to be sure.
“Excuse me,” I asked the woman standing next to me. “Do you speak English?”
“Yes,” she said.
“Is this butter?” I asked.
She looked at the package with all its strange letters.
“You should have asked me, ‘Do you speak Georgian?’”
Ah, another foreigner on an adventure in the grocery store.
So speaking English doesn’t always solve all your problems…
It is very nice experience. Like a joke from my country: A tourist came to mountain cottage and asked something in German, then in English and finally in Spanish, but the mountain man didn’t understand. Then told to his collegau: “Look, so many languages he knows but he can’t get what he want. Tell me, what needs them so many for ?” 😉
Ah, because he didn’t speak Slovak… I get it!
It is a very funny story. Both of you found each other in the propriate moment. 😀 I think that there are not many people who speak English in Georgia. Maybe the young people try to learn now because they want to travel, work abroad or navigate on the Web. I was in Tblisi long time ago. Then all people spoke Russian language.
It’s interesting, a lot speak, but if they don’t understand they’ll try about three different answers before saying “I don’t understand.”
😀 This is funnier. They probably try to show that they know something but they are not sure if it is correct.
:-)))) Don’t be panic, there are worst things in the world. Do you think could be an occasion to don’t use butter?
Think about it…
if you want I can help you to live GEORGIAN 😉🤗