Habla espanol?

Ok neither do i too much but...if you are in this business or plan to be or just communicate with the world in general better get on the Telemundo wagon....Americans are finding out that we need to interact with many different languages....now when the telemundo women come in we handle it all just fine but in my cheffing life there have been the not so moments also...when im asking the Peruvian dishwasher for a mop...i didn't know the word and i was hinting around at cleaning...limpio...the over by the door..puerto...but he kept looking at me puzzled..both of us just not getting through...then with a few more caricature poses he says...oh!!...necessito mopo?...i said WHAT??!!!...you call the mop mopo?...i didn't want to sound like the ugly American and say i need a mopo to washo the flooro...but there it was...mopo...then he went on to explain its different in one part of his country and different to a puerto Rican...i just wanted to clean up a spill...an El Salvadorian women i worked wanted a raise ...she made a hand gesture to me...what she thought in America we rub two fingers together meaning more money...that wasn't what she did...nope....not at all...blogging police will not allow me to say or explain what she did but means a bit something else in the US...she then felt wild embarrassment as she said she had just gone up to the boss and did it to her...cant imagine what went through her mind seeing that....world expands minds must also....Hasta