Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
bolueeleh wrote:haha good one, i would think so too, back in 2011 when i first came hereSailorman wrote: You would think they would hire someone that spoke a few words of English, you know English the language of business. It is run by an Australian company and even they speak a form of English.
curious, why should they learn to speak english? just to accommodate a few tourists that dont speak Khmer?
Ever travel anywhere else where everyone that works in transport speaks english? ( if its not an english speaking country)
Dam and why do they fucking blow their noses with their fingers, why cant they be more like us?
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
Kind of surprising that the ticket seller didn't speak English though. Sihanoukvillean's English is usually pretty good from what I've noticed. Everyone learns it at school.
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
if you want to have business from tourist then hire staffs that speak english, it is as simple as that, it is not obligatory but if tourist ticket sales is not good then dont bitch about it in the future (just sayin)phuketrichard wrote:bolueeleh wrote:haha good one, i would think so too, back in 2011 when i first came hereSailorman wrote: You would think they would hire someone that spoke a few words of English, you know English the language of business. It is run by an Australian company and even they speak a form of English.
curious, why should they learn to speak english? just to accommodate a few tourists that dont speak Khmer?
Ever travel anywhere else where everyone that works in transport speaks english? ( if its not an english speaking country)
Dam and why do they fucking blow their noses with their fingers, why cant they be more like us?
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
Yeah, no one expects the drinks seller lady to speak English, but I think ticket sales for an Australian company is reasonable.
They could sell wife-beaters at the station, sell Fosters, and show AFL on the telly, too.
They could sell wife-beaters at the station, sell Fosters, and show AFL on the telly, too.
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
wow tough crowd,bolueeleh wrote:if you want to have business from tourist then hire staffs that speak english, it is as simple as that, it is not obligatory but if tourist ticket sales is not good then dont bitch about it in the future (just sayin)phuketrichard wrote:bolueeleh wrote:haha good one, i would think so too, back in 2011 when i first came hereSailorman wrote: You would think they would hire someone that spoke a few words of English, you know English the language of business. It is run by an Australian company and even they speak a form of English.
curious, why should they learn to speak english? just to accommodate a few tourists that dont speak Khmer?
Ever travel anywhere else where everyone that works in transport speaks english? ( if its not an english speaking country)
Dam and why do they fucking blow their noses with their fingers, why cant they be more like us?
so far never met a ticket seller in Thailand that spoke english for the trains or bus's
and they deal with a hell of a lot more tourists than a ticket seller in Cambodia. You seriously think ticket sales will not be as good if the seller does not speak english?
How hard is it to buy a ticket for a train that only goes one place with 2 stops???
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
Yes, a logical question. But this is Cambodia, logic is forbidden. The simplest task becomes the 12 Labours of Hercules.phuketrichard wrote:How hard is it to buy a ticket for a train that only goes one place with 2 stops???
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
I think that's in China
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
It is now close to two decades ago that a friend and I took the train from PP to SHV; I ought to add that we were two-week tourists and that this was not long after OFF THE RAILS IN PHNOM PENH was published.
I attempted to buy tickets at the ticket counter in the then-shabby PP station and was told that this was - regrettably - impossible. (This entire transaction was in French, with a fortunate survivor of the DK period, NOT in English.)
Then I asked whether it would be possible to purchase tickets while actually on the train itself.
SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT DAWNED: Why yes! Of course! So that was what we did.
A flatcar in front of the locomotive was weighted with sandbags and the stoic and impecunious could ride on them free (this was at a time when banditry was intermittent throughout Cambodia (the roads were terrible BUT there were air services to every nook and cranny of the country) and at a time when the KR remnants in Anlong Veng were still able to inflict sharp tactical defeats on RCAF forces.)
Memory can be deceptive, but I'm fairly sure that some of the railway hardware was made in India. It will be remembered that India and the Muscovite bloc were the only friends post-1979 Cambodia possessed.
I attempted to buy tickets at the ticket counter in the then-shabby PP station and was told that this was - regrettably - impossible. (This entire transaction was in French, with a fortunate survivor of the DK period, NOT in English.)
Then I asked whether it would be possible to purchase tickets while actually on the train itself.
SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT DAWNED: Why yes! Of course! So that was what we did.
A flatcar in front of the locomotive was weighted with sandbags and the stoic and impecunious could ride on them free (this was at a time when banditry was intermittent throughout Cambodia (the roads were terrible BUT there were air services to every nook and cranny of the country) and at a time when the KR remnants in Anlong Veng were still able to inflict sharp tactical defeats on RCAF forces.)
Memory can be deceptive, but I'm fairly sure that some of the railway hardware was made in India. It will be remembered that India and the Muscovite bloc were the only friends post-1979 Cambodia possessed.
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Re: Trial passenger rail service to begin April 9
Looks a bit like the train coming into Bangkok to me. Definitely not Cambodia. Look at the white plastic underneath the fruit and veg? If it were Cambodia it would be sitting on bits of filthy wood.
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