Language Barrier Posted by Bubbly89 , Monday, December 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM, in

Ever felt the frustration of not being able to communicate with a person just, JUST because of the language barrier?

I had, and it was when I was travelling on the train to KRakow the other day. Well, at the beginning, me and Terri were like hoping of having the whole coach to ourselves on the train. And for the half an hour or the train, our hopes were crashed when two massive men walked in. Well, we were like thinking, "There goes our sleep!!!"

However, as the train moved, these two men were really very friendly. They offered us wine which of course we politely declined. Then they started talking to me. Apparently, I appeared to have more command in my Czech so they decided to just direct the conversation to just me.

Seriously, these two men were really very nice. At least one of the was. He kept on talking to me. Despite the err's and the huh's, we really had a conversation going on.

Then, suddenly, the warden told us that we had to go to another coach because apparently the train was going to split, with one part going to Slovakia and the other going to Krakow. Well, as our Czech was totally limited, we couldn't understand. But, after much explaination by the guy in the same coach, we finally got a bit of idea. And the guy was really a gentleman, he helped me carry the luggage and helped us to look for empty coach for us on the part of the train that was heading towards Krakow.

When we found the coach, the guy helped me lifted my luggage to the compartment where you put the luggage and made sure that we're settled, then he left. In the coach again, we met really nice people again. After that incident, I seriously realised how blessed we were because of the nice people we met on the train. Really praise the Lord!!!