{"id":394,"date":"2007-06-17T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-06-17T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:51:00","slug":"the-languages-of-guided-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-languages-of-guided-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"The languages of guided tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/560107710\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1130\/560107710_935b761eca_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/560107710\/\">Colosseum guided tours<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>When we were in Colosseum in Rome yesterday, I saw this sign, and it made me wonder why they offer those languages.<\/p>\n<p>They only have tours in English, Spanish and Italian, and more in Spanish than Italian.  Does this really reflect the visitors?  Where do all those speakers of Spanish come from &ndash; South America?<\/p>\n<p>And why no other languages &ndash; German, French, Russian, Polish or Japanese, for instance?<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colosseum guided tours Originally uploaded by viralbus When we were in Colosseum in Rome yesterday, I saw this sign, and it made me wonder why they offer those languages. They only have tours in English, Spanish and Italian, and more in Spanish than Italian. Does this really reflect the visitors? Where do all those speakers of Spanish come from &ndash; South America? And why no other languages &ndash; German, French, Russian, Polish or Japanese, for instance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}