Twitter Mini-Lessons - Public Transportation
Friday, November 20th, 2009
In this series of mini-lesson tweets on Twitter, we help you perfect your public transportation vocabulary to become a subway master in France. Here is the recap of this week’s phrases for your reference:
When users are mad at strikers from the Paris subway they say “RATP: Rentre Avec Tes Pieds”, “RATP: Go home by foot”.
Need you daily dose of caffeine while riding the train? Ask “Où est le wagon-restaurant?”, Where is the restaurant car?
When you missed your train and try to negotiate with an agent, start with “J’ai raté mon train”, I missed my train”.
Tired of public transportation? Get in a cab! Tell the driver where you go with “Je vais à …”, I am going to…
Using public transportation allows us to avoid “les embouteillages”, traffic jam.
Have you heard of “le vélib”? It’s a public bicycle rental program in Paris.
Bicycles in Paris have to ride on the bus lane, “le couloir de bus”. Dangerous!
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