Spanish speakers: Help a gringo out.

In My Humble Opinion
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I have some spanish-speaking employees. Their English is way better than my Spanish, but still - is not very good!

One has expressed an interest in my Bose Soundlink III that plays when I’m out on the deck or the pool. “Very heavy. Sound good”.

He asked the cost, and when I told him $300, he rolled his eyes & made some comment and left.

I wrote craigslist.com on a piece of paper, along with the name of the unit, and “Maybe $200” and gave it to him. He seemed to be familiar with the site, and said he would go there and look.

Here’s my problem: It would take years for me to communicate to him just what is involved with setting up an itunes account (assuming he has a computer), finding music he likes, getting it into an ipod, iphone, or itouch, and sending it bluetooth to the speaker.

I have some old iphones I can give him, but hurdles remain. I don’t think he’s incapable or incompetent because he can’t speak English; I just don’t know how to help him.

I’d like to give him a website he can read so he can learn what it will take to play tunes on wireless speaker.

It would be easier just to give him a boombox I suppose, but does anyone know if Apple has a Spanish page he can access and learn the intricacies of downloading and syncing music?

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Unfortunately, a Spanish internet, even with today’s technology, is still decades away. But it’s nice of you to try and help out.

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Did you try googling “apple inc. spanish”? I did, and got this:

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I did, but since I can’t read it, I don’t know what I’d be pointing him to.

I’m not going to spend hours translating pages to make sure they are what he needs.

A “Spanish internet” is exactly what I was hoping for. So many other countries have their own version, I just assumed Mexico, or Central America would have done the same by now.

A boombox and my old tape collection doesn’t sound so bad now…

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Did he ask for help setting up an itunes account? Has he shown himself to be ignorant of tech? Are there no teen aged relatives around that can set up stuff for him?

Soundlink III in spanish.
http://worldwide.bose.com/library/assets/pdf/guides/soundlink_bt_3/soundlink_bt_spkr%20III_SPA.pdf

Just a quick question…why would you not show your employee the link John Mace brought up? Do you expect spanish itunes and english itunes to be drastically different?

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Y’know, trying to whoosh the OP isn’t being very helpful.:dubious:

There are many millions of pages in Spanish on the internet. (“Espanol iTunes” got more than 2 million hits on Google.) Assuming the guy is even a little computer literate, he should have no problem finding plenty of information. Even if not, if the guy has teenage kids or other relatives they should be able to help him easily.

Don’t underestimate the guy’s knowledge and background. Damn near everyone here in Panama has an iPhone or some other smart phone, including lots of people out in rural areas. I’m sure Mexico is the same.

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It sounds like he thought the sound unit was overpriced, like most Bose products. Is there any reason to believe he is ignorant of the internet and mobile devices? All the Mexicans I know are just as familiar with and comfortable using those things as are Americans.

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Come on Ducati… He speaks Spanish, he isn’t retarded.

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Unless he’s retarded too.

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Good call.

Ducati, is he both retarded and Spanish speaking?

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Oh come on, Colibri, this OP has got to be one of the stupidest things ever posted on this board. That wasn’t an attempt at a whoosh, I don’t think. That was a gentle attempt to suggest to the OP just how remarkably stupid his assumptions are.

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My girlfriend is from Monterrey Mexico with a high school education and has no problem with using her iPhone. Sounds to me like the guy was commenting on how hefty the speaker felt (it’s pretty solid) and that it sounded good. I imagine that he already knows that Bose products are over priced as well so Arrendajo don’t assume just because he is Mexican that he can’t afford one.

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Yeah, but your girlfriend probably get a Mexican iPhone so it’s not apples to naranjas.

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I don’t know, older spanish-speaking folks can be just as computer illiterate as english-speaking folks. I’ve got a middle-aged guy from Ecuador that I do computer stuff for, and he couldn’t manage a google image search in his own language. He was too intimidated to search for stuff like “bebida de frutas” by himself so I sat there for two hours typing in spanish words I didn’t know and waiting for him to tell me which picture he liked. And it’s not because he’s dumb…he’s just one of those people who doesn’t handle computers. If I asked him to set up a wireless boombox on his own I would forsee two days of fuckups, a magical virus or two, and a forgotten password. And his router somehow set to do something totally wacky.

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Does the OP think that people in Mexico are poor and don’t have nice things like computers, ipads, cell phones, etc. because they can’t speak English?

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There certainly is a great deal of computer illiteracy that underlies this story, but not all of it is Hispanic in nature.

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Thank you for making my entire fucking day. I am going to keep laughing to myself about this for at least the next four hours. :smiley:

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Maybe you could give him your old digital picture frame, that had pretty good audio.

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That won’t work. The pictures aren’t in Spanish.

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“Ay yi yi! Los internet Americanos es muy difficult!” Then he’ll sit down against a wall, strum a lazy chord on his guitar, tip his sombrero down over his eyes and go to sleep.