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 dandy will provide services in English, Japanese,China Travel, 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,China Travel, an official from the safekeeping's museum department, told Xinhua on Wednesday. But museums of unequalerent types will have their own focus, he said. Museums like the crossroads Museum might provide services in increasingly than sflush foreign languages even though the Confucius Temple and the Imperial Academy, 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 assorted 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)