German Rail tv streamed.

[Chris]

Not sure if you've seen this, but every time I bring up the site its a streaming railway programme which is playing. Pity its all in German though.

Chris
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oops sorry! Forgot to post the link

http://www.bahntv-online.de/btvo/site/

Apologies

Chris

 

[berlingermany]

WOW!!! Crhis tahnk you very much

 

[adamp]

Translator anyone??

 

[Nym]

Ich nicht spache deutch, "Wo ist der Bahnhouf?"

 

[Mojo]

Do you realise that makes very little grammatical sense?

 

[Nym]

I don't speak that much german, enough to get by in dutchland and deutchland

 

[Mojo]

Enough to get buy in The Netherlands and Germany? That would be English then when speaking to the majority of people providing any sort of public service

 

[33056]

Try the former East Germany, quite a few rail staff in the more rural areas there only speak German.

Had a bit of a laugh when we were over at Hof a couple of years ago and spied our last Regensburg 218 for haulage, trouble was it was on a Leipzig service that was teminating at place called Pöllwitz (in the middle of nowhere) due to engineering works. We decided to go there and return on the same train, but the guard could not understand why we didn't want to alight at the previous station (Pausa) and get the bus to Gera or Leipzig. Neither her or the bus driver could speak English and we could not speak enough German to explain what we wanted to do (not that they would probably have understood anyway).

After trying to lead us to the bus, they gave in when we got back on the train and sat back down again, though I think that Ada was rather surprised when alighted as soon as the train terminated at Pöllwitz and walked off out of the station bidding her a cheery "auf wiedersehen", I think that she was expecting some sort of rant along the lines of "why isn't the train going to Gera / Leipzig"!

Here is the obligatory picture of the cause of the carry on

 

[Nym]

Enough to get buy in The Netherlands and Germany? That would be English then when speaking to the majority of people providing any sort of public service

Go speak english at a dutch car hire, you get ****e after 2 hours of slow talking and whats?

 

[Mojo]

Yeah, you'll probably find many oldies in the DDR probably can't speak as good English as many of the young ones today as still in many people today they resent having to learn & speak English just to get by in business of their own country! I suppose it was less relevent then in the mid-life of the DDR.

It's also a difficult issue, I strongly object to the fact that many English speakers from whatever countries are very lazy and some don't even learn the basic language of wherever they go. But on the other hand, English is learnt from a young age in the majority of Western countries, so it is not uncommon to see people from a non-English speaking country speaking to natives of another non-English speaking country in English when abroad, as in many cases it is a common language.

Of course, it's always hard for the British & Americans to return the favour of speaking in a different language in non-specialist facilities due to the huge number of languages people could be speaking!

 

[Siggi155]

Translator anyone??

Yes, my native language is german.