FriscoMo Posted April 29 #1 Share Posted April 29 Many years ago, we cruised on Costa out of Venice and all announcements were made in at least five languages. Because of the diverse nationalities of the cruisers, they didn't have comedians or acts based on communicating via language. We're looking at cruising the Mediterranean on Princess in 2025. Does Princess only made announcements in english? Do they have english speaking comedians, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ken the cruiser Posted April 29 #2 Share Posted April 29 The only times we’ve heard dual languages used on Princess cruises were on the Diamond when we were doing a B2B around Japan last summer where they had two CDs and provided information and comedy sketches in both English and Japanese, and on our recent Antarctica/SA cruise on the Sapphire where the CD made announcements in both English and Spanish. However, I believe the CD only spoke English on our 21-day Med cruise in July 2022. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LACruiser88 Posted April 29 #3 Share Posted April 29 In the Med, everything onboard will be in English. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ombud Posted April 29 #4 Share Posted April 29 Carnival Corp lines: Aida - German Costa - Italian / English CSSC - Mandarin All others (Carnival, Cunard, Princess, PO, POAU, Seabourn) - English everywhere in the world 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare PacnGoNow Posted April 29 #5 Share Posted April 29 9 hours ago, FriscoMo said: Many years ago, we cruised on Costa out of Venice and all announcements were made in at least five languages. Because of the diverse nationalities of the cruisers, they didn't have comedians or acts based on communicating via language. We're looking at cruising the Mediterranean on Princess in 2025. Does Princess only made announcements in english? Do they have english speaking comedians, etc? English definitely. Funny: On Costa, it drove us crazy… ALL the announcements! Once, they made an announcement in Italian and never repeated it in English, so I asked what the announcement was about. They said, “Oh, if it was important, they would have announced it in English!” 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCThunder Posted April 29 #6 Share Posted April 29 The interesting thing is that many of the senior deck officers on Princess are Italian and when they make the noon position reports (on sea days), they speak English with a strong Italian accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beg3yrs Posted April 29 #7 Share Posted April 29 9 hours ago, Ombud said: Carnival Corp lines: Aida - German Costa - Italian / English CSSC - Mandarin All others (Carnival, Cunard, Princess, PO, POAU, Seabourn) - English everywhere in the world On our Costa cruises English was the third or fourth language used for announcements. For us it was, in no particular order; Italian, Spanish, English, French and German. DW is a native speaker for English and is fluent in Spanish and can understand some French and Italian. I can understand some Spanish. It was fun for us to listen carefully to all the announcements and decided if they were substantially the same in each language. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCThunder Posted April 29 #8 Share Posted April 29 Fly Lufthansa or Air France and hear all airplane announcements in both German and English, or French and English. I haven't flown on Emirates or Etihad so don't know if announcements are in Arabic and English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ombud Posted April 29 #9 Share Posted April 29 ANA was Japanese 1st then English Sunday. But to be expected on a Japanese airline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted April 29 #10 Share Posted April 29 We did a Norwegian Fjords cruise on Princess a few years ago. All announcements, including the muster drill, which was only done in person at that time, were done in both English and Spanish. Not sure if it was done that way on all Fjord cruises, but on our cruise there was a very large contingent of passengers from Spain. The following week on our British Isles cruise announcements were only made in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Lady Arwen Posted April 29 #11 Share Posted April 29 3 hours ago, DCThunder said: Fly Lufthansa or Air France and hear all airplane announcements in both German and English, or French and English. I haven't flown on Emirates or Etihad so don't know if announcements are in Arabic and English. Fly Air Canada and Westjet it’s English and French. People tend to forget that Canada is a bi-lingual country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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