Originally Posted by gglave
>Even if I'm with a native speaker, menus are the usually the biggest challenge...'this is a meat but I don't what you call it in english...'
Reminds me of when I was in Jordan. I had the business card (in Arabic) from my hotel, figuring that when I lept in a cab I could just show it to the cabbie.
That's what I did, but I led to no end of confusion, with the cabbie continually stopping to jabber at people in Arabic, while showing them the card. Eventually I figured it out: The cabbie couldn't read and he was asking people to tell him what was written on the card.
Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada
ROTFLMAO
I do the same thing when traveling abroad; especially when staying at a smaller hotel and I never once thought about what to do if the cabbie was illiterate. Hmmmm might need a new idea when traveling abroad; maybe a picture of the hotel on my cell phone.
