Some helpful tips when traveling abroad and having to speak English

Some helpful tips when traveling abroad and having to speak English | foto: Profimedia.cz

Practicing Travel English 2

  • 9
Continuing our series on traveling to America where you will have to speak English, let’s finish our point now about being polite and about also being a foreigner. Since most Americans do not own passports, they do not travel to other countries as seamlessly nor regularly as Europeans are accustomed to.

Instead, whenever Americans do go anywhere, it tends to be by car.

Most Americans never will visit any single destination outside of their own country. Once again, less than 18% of all Americans even own passports. Obviously, without passports one is not going to travel around the globe.

You are an Ambassador
As a person who is unique, especially to most Americans, you are in a position to be somewhat of an "Ambassador" for your country.

This is a basic, human, universal dynamic.


For example, if an American visits Prague and gets mugged on the metro and his rental car also gets stolen, he’s not going to remember the Czech Republic very fondly, even though 99.99%+ of all Czechs had nothing to do with what happened to him, nor would they wish him any problems.

The point here is that when one is on travel, you are an extension in many ways of the country you represent.

Czechs are honorable people, and should always act honorably, especially when traveling abroad.

Being polite - revisited
There’s a reason we have taken the time to wade through all of this. Ambassadors are always polite. Being polite is always going to get a person much better results than being rude.

It’s also the right thing to do.

In tomorrow’s segment, we’ll cover issues like asking for directions and ordering from menus and explain what some of the key differences are.

. Jokes: Poems You NEVER Write to Czech Women

Here’s a love poem that you would never write to a Czech woman, unless you want to remain single.

Oh love of my life,

Please be my wife,

To cook and clean

For me all day

And pray

That I only eat

Three meals, no way.

For I am a man

Who loves every

Woman I can,

Or rather the ones

Who will let me,

Because I always have to beg

And spend lots of money

On them, and even then

This is only to talk.

Now, if you actually want some interesting conversation, such as sports, forget it!



Angličtina vychází od pondělí do pátku.

Najdete ji také v bezplatném deníku Metropolitní expres.
Kalovi pište na adresu: kal.korff@expresdenik.cz


, METRO

Eurovolby 2024

Volby do Evropského parlamentu se v Česku uskuteční v pátek 7. a v sobotu 8. června 2024. Čeští voliči budou vybírat 21 poslanců Evropského parlamentu. Voliči v celé Evropské unii budou rozhodovat o obsazení celkem 720 křesel

Video