Once upon a time, a clever person, L. L. Zamenhof, pondered how many languages there are (more than 7,100 languages are spoken in the world today) and wondered if there was a better way to communicate? Zamenhof then devised Esperanto, which is the world’s most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or “the international language.” What a great idea. But, for the most part, it never caught on, and we all still default to our native languages, the ones we used since we were born. Some of us are smart enough to be fluent in more than one language and – for better or worse – English tends to be the language we default to when people of many nations convene. Thank goodness for services like Google Translate to help us out when standard human methods fail.
Here’s a funny video from Germany’s excellent DW service, where a “German” village exists in Venezuela, and a real German visits to test out the actual situation.
Iberia fly to Caracas . . . but not from the USA, for now. Click for excellent choices.
You can find luxury everywhere – stay at the Waldorf Hotel in Caracas. click here.
Viator have lots of things to do in Venezuela. Click above.