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Language at TAM Zürich?

bozothedeathmachine

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Does anyone know what the primary language will be for TAM Zürich? Although Zürich is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, there are 4 official languages...and I don't speak any of them.

I'm totally pumped about this, but if it's all going to be in German, I don't think I'll go.

Cheers.
 
bozothedeathmachine said:
Does anyone know what the primary language will be for TAM Zürich? Although Zürich is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, there are 4 official languages...and I don't speak any of them.

I'm totally pumped about this, but if it's all going to be in German, I don't think I'll go.

Cheers.
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English. But I wouldn't count on there being a TAM Switzerland, based on some things I have heard.
 
French, German, I can understand. What are the other two languages?
 
I think someone mentioned to Randi that there ought to be one in Switzerland, and he agreed....that's the extent of the planning :D
 
THe Nile would ROCK!!!

But for me it will ROCK by looking at all the photographs and reading the blogs!

I really hope there is a TAM Zurich as I have a free place to stay and I enjoyed my time in Switzerland. More language difficulty than in France and Belgium, fewer ENglish speakers and oddly a few times people tried to give us incorrect change! IT was rather funny after a bit, the first time we wrote off as a mistake. By the third time we were ready for it and just more firmly explained the "mistake".

But it's VERY CLEAN!
 
kittynh said:
THe Nile would ROCK!!!

But for me it will ROCK by looking at all the photographs and reading the blogs!

I really hope there is a TAM Zurich as I have a free place to stay and I enjoyed my time in Switzerland. More language difficulty than in France and Belgium, fewer ENglish speakers and oddly a few times people tried to give us incorrect change! IT was rather funny after a bit, the first time we wrote off as a mistake. By the third time we were ready for it and just more firmly explained the "mistake".

But it's VERY CLEAN!
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Maybe if enough people contacted the JREF, it would put TAM Switzerland over the top!
 
bozothedeathmachine said:
Does anyone know what the primary language will be for TAM Zürich? Although Zürich is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, there are 4 official languages...and I don't speak any of them.

I'm totally pumped about this, but if it's all going to be in German, I don't think I'll go.

Cheers.
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The idea is to organise the first-ever skeptics conference entirely in Romansch :-)

No seriously, the goal is to offer a mix of English and German talks and simultaneous translation for both languages. There definitively are French and Italian speakers who would add great value to the programme, e.g. Umberto Eco, who's a member of the Italian skeptics, but whether we can go beyond translation from more languages remains to be seen.

The Swiss Freethinkers, who came up with the idea of organising a skeptics conference under the TAM label, are keen to make the event very worthwhile for English monolinguals.

We also want to offer 'skeptic couchsurfing' for people on a tight budget.
 
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