How dare they speak their own language in their own country on a regional train

dale_glass 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you still should be able to expect a bit of accommodation on trains that cross country borders or go to airports.

The EU makes travel between EU countries as easy as travel between US states. You can just get on a train from Germany to Spain without any prior planning.

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zahlman 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's also unusual given how much English you'll hear in Germany nowadays (at least in major, tourist-attracting cities) in just about any other context.

	▲	nephihaha 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Too much English. I noticed this indoctrination way back when they released Ice Age over there for kids. The title wasn't even translated into German.

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sva_ 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The regional trains usually have announcements in the language of the neighboring country when they get close to the border

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ruszki 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They can. But they should also not be assholes with everybody else. And no not just local trains, I got information in English exactly zero times when there were huge delays on international trains. And it happened 2 times from 3 when I tried to cross Germany by train. And Germans (and Austrians btw) are terrible with this, even compared to others. The German site at my multinational company at the time was the only site on Earth which had to introduce an internal regulation about mandatory English, because they just switched to German all the time even when there were people on the call from different countries. I’m living now in Wien, and they are terrible with this even in friendly environments.

	▲	pimeys 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		YMMV. I worked in three different German startups in Berlin and I almost never heard anybody speaking German in the company, even though more than half of the people were from Germany. Maybe it's different in bigger companies, or outside Berlin?

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pjmlp 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was an international connection train, ICE, between Amsterdam and Cologne....

	▲	Freak_NL 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So Dutch and German? Actually, those ICE are staffed by Dutch NS personnel until Köln where they swap with their German DB colleagues. Usually that means Dutch and German messages from Amsterdam to Köln (sometimes English too), and German afterwards.