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Have you ever visited Japan, where you can find lots of ‘translated’ English messages?
Japan, a country located in East Asia and formed of more than 6,000 islands, is one of the most famous tourist’s destinations in the world.
Due to the dramatical increase of foreign tourists visiting Japan in the 2010’s, train operators jn Japan had to adopt English messages into their passenger information systems then… something went wrong and finally the cities in Japan are full of unnatural English messages — actually they all make sense but sometimes they are redundant.
This video compares some of the real examples of Japanese English messages from train announcements all over Japan with ones from London.
Playlist
00:14 – First greetings and train destination
01:19 – Destionation on circlular line
02:06 – Calling points
03:30 – Calling points announcements on stopping services
04:47 – Calling points announcements on direct non-stopping services
05:32 – Customer announcements regarding hazardous items
06:45 – Customer announcements regarding COVID-19
07:41 – Customer announcements encouraging customers offering their seats
08:21 – Next station announcements
09:20 – Interchange information
10:57 – Alight for vicinity sites
11:41 – Pre arrival announcements
12:23 – Which side of doors to be released
13:00 – Mind the gap
13:50 – Approaching final stop
14:44 – Take everything with you
15:28 – Thank you for travelling with us
16:13 – Last greetings
17:02 – Leave the train please
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