Diary of SpanishI was Born in Latin America, My Friends are in Europe and I'm Living In India… My Daily Life… My Friends… My Diary

Just like me I found a few Latin people in India. One of them is Peter and he is in his late 30s. Now he is in India for almost a year and trying to figure out how to do all the things. His company sends him to all the countries where they want to expand their business. He works for a beverage company and mainly sets up the company infrastructure and later on moves to another country.

The first few times when he went to his own embassy he had to wait outside in the sun for approximately 4 hours to submit papers. Mostly here Indian citizens work in his embassy. He doesn’t know English neither he knows Hindi so he can’t communicate with anyone. I told him that it’s not easy to work in Indian Environment. Not everyone is honest and not every one is hardworking. If you don’t know the language people will take advantage of the situation as they do with me while I do shopping. As long as I don’t speak they charge normally, but once I say something in English and they know my accent they immediately start charging extra to me. He took my advice and he is learning English but at this age you normally don’t learn too fast. Read More…

Yep… Doing Business for a Foreign National in India is a pain. First it’s the System, Second the Diverse languages and Third is the corruption and Middle man in your contracts.

My friend Peter has landed in India 6 Months Back for setting up their companies operations. He is mainly from Latin America and Knows Spanish Only so Language is one of his biggest problems. His company has sent him to setup the operations from the scratch. He had to do the Land Acquisitions and patent and setting up an office and factory and everything… so he had to have someone who could translate Spanish English and Hindi, so he found one Indian Spanish English Hindi Translator and he trusted Him. But after 2 months he found out that the translator was actually a middle man favoring certain company…  So he fired Him… Now he does not have anyone to Translate… He has to go often to Delhi and other places for his work…

Whenever he speaks to me he sounds like a poor Kid who is lost in the Market and doesn’t know where to go or what to do… Read More…