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(08-23-2012 01:40 AM)kavakid Wrote:  

By the way, here is a very important trick for gaming in Mexico.

My opener: hola, hables ingles (hello, you speak english?)
75%-80% of the time they will say "No" or will shrug.

Ignore it and say: "What is your name"

They will usually answer. And if there are two girls then between the two of them you will be able to have some communication. Especially if you know a few words in spanish. I have pushed through many, many instances in which the girls insisted that they did not speak english yet turned out to be decent english speakers. Also, usually people can understand english better than they speak it.

The same thing happened to me when I was in colombia. It was very rare to find somebody who spoke english so I started opening with.
"Estoy perdido. Puedes ayurdarme?" They never said no