Universal Language

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My daughter is leaving for Costa Rica soon, to study upper level Spanish at the University there. She is already quite fluent, as are my husband and my two sons. Realizing the importance of having a second language, we put them in an immersion program at first grade. Their skills have surpassed my husband's, who has lived in Mexico for extended periods in his life and who has relatives from Mexico. I have very limited understanding of the language, and even less spoken fluency.

So, in my travels with my family into strange lands with strange language, or when I face a deaf or demented or infant patient, I follow the advice of Allen Klein:

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.