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It's really not too much to expect a train going to the airport to make important announcements in English.
by stevage 10mo ago
It's really not too much to expect a train going to the airport to make important announcements in English.
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- nephihaha 10mo ago[flagged]
- sho_hn 10mo agoIt's still an expectation I have, even as a native German speaker. I work for a well-known German company (our storefronts are sometimes called "the German embassy"), and our day-to-day business language at work is ... English. We hire from all over and want people to be able to get around effectively. This is infrastructure. Make it work.
- xenocratus 10mo agoNu sunt englez, așa cã n-o sã-ți rãspund în englezã.
- nephihaha 10mo agoCeart gu leòr. Chan eil Romainis agam. :)
- rplnt 10mo agoHonestly, it should be an obligation. DB should make it one for themselves. DB carries millions of people a year that do not speak the language. Important information like route changes should be available to them. English just happens to be the most likely language to be understood at least enough to ask staff/other passengers as to what is going on.
- modo_mario 10mo agoIf preventing people that struggle with the local language from getting confused or missing stuff is the goal then they're likely better off doing it in Turkish or Arab.
- nephihaha 10mo agoI'm a native English speaker. It is not their obligation to provide everything in English. It is arrogant for someone like me to presume it should be.
- prmoustache 10mo agoNot being under any obligation doesn't mean it is not a sensible a courteous way to do. You like it or not, english has become a defacto common international language. While I speak 5 languages and try to learn some basic words of the local languages of any country I visit out of courtesy (how to say hello, bye, thank you, ask where are the toilets, etc), I wouldn't expect any traveller to know enough to understand this kind of specificities in any country they visit.
- encom 10mo ago>common international language Not nearly as much as people on the internet seem to think. In large parts of Europe, speaking english will get you absolutely nowhere.
- whstl 10mo agoI mean, whenever the Deutsche Bahn is involved, in large parts of Germany speaking German will also get you absolutely nowhere...
- prmoustache 10mo agoNear international airports and capitals usually yes you can usually get help in english accross europe, at least enough to get basic help and instructions.
- Yizahi 10mo agoШановні пасажири, цей потяг який слідує від станції Івано-Франківськ Головний через Житомир до станції Київ-Дарниця буде розділено дві частини, вагони з першого по п'ятнадцятий прослідують до станції Київ-Головний, а вагони з шістнадцятого по двадцять перший поїдуть у пекло, муахаха. Дякую за вашу увагу.
- nephihaha 10mo agoTo be fair, I'm sure the USSR insisted on Russian language announcements in the Ukraine. Look how that turned out... Language war in the east. If I went to the Ukraine, I would either pick up some Ukrainian or take some who did.
- Yizahi 10mo agoEnglish is much more diffuse around the globe and can't be attributed to a single empire. There is no risk in dubbing in English and many benefits, from encouraging tourists and workers. Also people are forgetting that railway announcements both at the station and inside the carriage are usually a complete incomprehensible trash tier. I honestly can't decipher half of the words in the Ukrainian or Russian announcements. Imagine needing to do that in the foreign language. In my opinion it is way past time that EU has officially adopted English as a standard language for all communications. Especially with the crazies preparing for invasion right at the border.
- School-Cotton 10mo agoOf course they’re under no obligation to do so. In fact, they’re under no obligation to let in foreign tourists at all, or to not make their lives arbitrarily hard in various ways. But not being obligated to not be a dick doesn’t mean you should in fact be one.
- nephihaha 10mo agoThey aren't though. That's the point. English speakers are determined to force their language on everyone else. I've seen it abroad on many occasions. It is often painful to watch. Sometimes they even make fun of the person for speaking poor English. You're also assuming the tourists themselves are all fluent in English, which is another issue. In some parts of Germany, many of their tourists are likely to speak French or Polish as a primary language, not to mention Mandarin etc from further afield.
- manarth 10mo agoAnd French, as Germany is adjacent to France. There are train connections to Scandinavia, so let's add Swedish, Danish and Finnish. Also Dutch and Polish to accommodate the other adjacent countries.
- sho_hn 10mo agoThis is the sort of immature "well, actually" response that you can't afford anymore once you actually take responsibility for things. I wish more people trained themselves to have a "what if I had to do it" habit before having an opinion. Imagine you're in charge of the train network. You have to pay for the announcements on trains. You can't reasonanbly pay 10 announcements because that's silly and expensive. If you add any language other than German, which are you going to add? It's not hard to be pragmatic.
- manarth 10mo agoPragmatic is multiple languages in locations where it's highly relevant. For example, the UK Gatwick Express train makes announcements in English, French, German and Spanish. The Thameslink service (which also happens to travel on the same tracks and also happens to stop at Gatwick Airport) makes announcements in English only. I wouldn't expect local or regional trains in Europe to make announcements other than in that country's native language – except perhaps where it's a service designed for airport connections or similar international travel.
- modo_mario 10mo ago>If you add any language other than German, which are you going to add? Given the demographics? Turkish or arab
- hulitu 10mo ago> If you add any language other than German, which are you going to add? Bavarian ? /s
- wasmitnetzen 10mo agoCheap strawman. Travelling Swedes, Danes, Finns and Poles will be fine with English, Dutch with either/both English or German.
- trinix912 10mo agoWhere I live the bus drivers that drive the bus from the capital to the airport barely speak the local language, let alone English.
- stevage 10mo agoWhere I live the airport bus plays a prerecorded message. It's pretty obnoxious.