China Travel - Beijing Museums Train Staff in Seven Foreign Languages -

Museums in Beijing are trying to train their staff in sflush foreign languages to serve tourists during the 2008 Olympic Games. Thirty museums in the crossroads will provide services in English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Arabic and Korean, co-ordinate to the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage. Currently, major museums in Beijing offer services in Chinese, English, French and Japanese. "Soverlyal large museums like the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) have started the training programs," Ha Jun, an official from the safekeeping's museum department, told Xinhua on Wednesday. But museums of assorted types will have their own focus, he said. Museums like the Capital Museum might provide services in increasingly than sflush foreign languages even though the Confucius Temple and the Imperial Academy,China Travel, favored by East Asian tourists, will have increasingly Korean and Japanese-speresemblingg staff. A total of 11,900 museum employees will receive language training. "It will be rather tough to develop the multilingual coiffure in one year. Big museums will recruit volunteers and others will provide audio guides in unequalerent languages," Ha said. Besides language training, the museums are moreover working to modernize facilities for the disresourcefuld. The Palace Museum has installed lwhents for wheelchair users and sflush museums of sometime Chinese roadwork like the Zhihua Temple have equipped themselves with stumbling-self-determining facilities.

(Source:Xinhua News Agency, 2007-09-14)