{"id":4644,"date":"2015-11-19T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:39:16","slug":"help-to-choose-your-loo-and-you-wont-need-to-spend-a-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/help-to-choose-your-loo-and-you-wont-need-to-spend-a-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Help to choose your loo – and you won’t need to spend a penny"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all had that moment, haven\u2019t we? That moment when you\u2019re in another country, you don\u2019t speak the language, and suddenly realise you don\u2019t know which loo is the men\u2019s and which is the women\u2019s. Do you guess, and risk getting it wrong? Or do you just cross your legs and convince yourself you didn\u2019t really need to go anyway?\"How<\/p>\n

This happened to me several years ago, and it\u2019s still one of my favourite stories (I\u2019ve got a story for every occasion, as anyone at EuroTalk will tell you) \u2013 but it came to be the inspiration for a tool that\u2019s helped millions of people learn a language over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n

In the pioneer days of EuroTalk I was travelling to Budapest with my business partner Andrew for a meeting.\u00a0Our plane landed 40 minutes early, so we had nothing to do but sit in the deserted airport and wait for someone to come and get us.\u00a0During this wait, I went off to use the facilities, but realised when I got there that I had no idea from looking at the Hungarian signs which toilet was for men and which one was for women. After 20 minutes of waiting with crossed legs, I finally resorted to tossing a coin to decide which one I should use. Fortunately, it worked!<\/p>\n

But the incident made me realise how important it is to help people make more informed\u00a0decisions in other languages. That’s why we made toilet talk – or at least the information about how to ask correctly for male and female toilets – an essential part of our Talk Now<\/a> product and we now give the words for male and female toilets away for free in 120+ languages \u00a0through our \u00a0uTalk<\/a> app.\u00a0So you\u2019ll never get caught short, wherever you are.<\/p>\n

Dick<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve all had that moment, haven\u2019t we? That moment when you\u2019re in another country, you don\u2019t speak the language, and suddenly realise you don\u2019t know which loo is the men\u2019s and which is the women\u2019s. Do you guess, and risk getting it wrong? Or do you just cross your legs and convince yourself you didn\u2019t … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,18,794],"tags":[2,1351,1352,1353,28,1354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}