Однажды некоему англоязычному гиду по Санкт-Петербургу попалась группа, состоящая исключительно из китайцев. Подобное происходит довольно часто: гидов с китайским языком очень мало, и стоят их услуги огромные деньги, а жителей в Китае, напротив, очень много. Поэтому, если хотя бы пара человек в группе знает несколько слов на каком-нибудь европейском языке, группа заказывает гида с этим языком.
Once an English-speaking tour-guide from St. Petersburg had to accompany a group of just Chinese-speaking tourists around the city. A situation like this is rather common since Chinese-speaking tour-guides are rare and their services are exceptionally expensive, even though there are large numbers of people from China who are traveling these days. Thus, if there are at least a few people in a group from China who speaks at least a couple of words of English or of some other European language, they usually engage a guide with this particular language.
The guide had to face some more trouble that day as well. There were too many guests in the city and there was a lack of proper buses, so the tour-companies had to employ drivers and buses from Finland. Finnish tour-buses are very nice and comfortable; however, Finnish drivers usually do not know the city and do not speak any other language but Finnish. Thus, the tour guide was not only responsible to guide the tour but also she had to give the driver continuous instructions, mainly using a non-verbal sign-language.
The next day the tour-company received a complaint from the group from China stating: «The guide we had yesterday, spoke a very bad English as we could hardly understand her. And she also couldn’t speak a proper Russian – as the driver didn’t understand her as well».
© Ekaterina Krakhmalova
Но это бы еще ничего, да вот только в этот день в городе было очень много туристов, и ощущалась явная нехватка автобусов, в связи с чем, данному гиду достался еще и финский автобус, вкупе с финским водителем, не знающим города, и не говорящим ни на каком языке, кроме финского. Таким образом, гиду приходилась не только вести экскурсию, но и беспрерывно давать инструкции водителю, главным образом при помощи невербальных средств.
На следующий день от группы пришла жалоба: «Гид плохо говорила по-английски: мы ее не понимали. Она также плохо говорила по-русски, так как водитель ее тоже не понимал!»
© Ekaterina Krakhmalova
Some Misunderstandings. Story 1
© Ekaterina Krakhmalova
Some Misunderstandings. Story 1
Once an English-speaking tour-guide from St. Petersburg had to accompany a group of just Chinese-speaking tourists around the city. A situation like this is rather common since Chinese-speaking tour-guides are rare and their services are exceptionally expensive, even though there are large numbers of people from China who are traveling these days. Thus, if there are at least a few people in a group from China who speaks at least a couple of words of English or of some other European language, they usually engage a guide with this particular language.
The guide had to face some more trouble that day as well. There were too many guests in the city and there was a lack of proper buses, so the tour-companies had to employ drivers and buses from Finland. Finnish tour-buses are very nice and comfortable; however, Finnish drivers usually do not know the city and do not speak any other language but Finnish. Thus, the tour guide was not only responsible to guide the tour but also she had to give the driver continuous instructions, mainly using a non-verbal sign-language.
The next day the tour-company received a complaint from the group from China stating: «The guide we had yesterday, spoke a very bad English as we could hardly understand her. And she also couldn’t speak a proper Russian – as the driver didn’t understand her as well».
© Ekaterina Krakhmalova
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