On learning languages

An old man is standing by the road with his grandson in his local village in Finland when a foreigner stops. The foreigner asks in swedish the way to the local shop and the old man doesn't understand and responds "eh?". The foreigner then tries the same question in english, german, french and german with the same response. Finally the foreigner drives off. The old man turns to his grandson and says "See, there's no point in learning foreign languages - that foreigner knew five different languages and still couldn't find the way".