Cosmos, an African teacher of English in Guiyang, in the news

[ News story relates how several Guiyang traffic policewoman know how to speak English well, able to give directions to Cosmos, an expat English teacher here. ]

贵阳交警设双语岗 老外问路也能对答

http://www.hebei.com.cn  2011-07-23 11:12 长城网  http://jiaotong.hebei.com.cn/system/2011/07/23/011299496.shtml

 
  22日下午,在贵阳交际处路口来了一位特殊的问路人,一名外国朋友用英语向交警问路,而交际处的女交警们用一口流利的英语回答了老外的问题。原来,交际处交警岗已经变成了双语岗,老外来问路也能对答。
  “Thanks for your help,byebye。”22日下午2点半,在贵阳当外教的Cosmos向交际处的女交警询问喜来登酒店怎么走,在女交警用流利的英语为Cosmos指路后,Cosmos非常惊喜地表示感谢。Cosmos向记者表示,他没想到贵阳交警能用流利的英语为他指路,这让他很开心,觉得贵阳越来越吸引他。
  “为了能流利的为外国朋友们指路,我们已经练习了两个月,应对基本的问路和实施交通管制等内容都能顺利回答和解说。”贵阳交警一大队三中队副中队长叶承碧告诉记者。
  除了交际处设置了双语岗外,贵阳交警一大队在黔灵山公园路口也设置了双语岗位。贵阳交警一大队政工办主任刘明说,今后还会逐步在其他岗位推广双语服务。(实习生叶梁婕特约记者乔啓明记者邹敏)
关键词: 交警|双语岗|老外问路|贵阳

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email: rmahoney58@yahoo.com , new Guiyang tel: 187 9860 2861, also: 86-152 5582 4713, 86-136 7173 7017 . In China 18 years, Ray (55 years old) has also taught in Shanghai, Beijing, Shiyan (Hubei), Kuitun (Xinjiang), Lanzhou, Changchun and elsewhere. Was in China-related business in the 1980s and 90s, and in the NGO sector both as a volunteer and in full-time positions. Has also been to India and Pakistan. As of August 2013, Ray is in Guiyang, Guizhou province, to work in a private middle school there, the Guiyang American-Canadian International School 贵阳美加国际学校. A newly created Flickr site, "GoGuiyang," has photos and articles to help people new to Guiyang, like myself, settle in quickly. See the photos arranged into sets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/sets/ Also active on Siwawa58 (where I dump my ESL materials), see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98498293@N05/page1/?details=1, and I re-post material from Youtube (blocked in China) to Tudou and Youku, see: Youku "gelatiao58" http://www.soku.com/search_video/q_gelatiao58?f=1&kb=0412000000000__gelatiao58) and Tudou "gelatiao" http://www.soku.com/t/nisearch/gay%20men%20s%20chorus).