RADIOPHONE GIRLS.
TALK ALL TONGUES. England and Europe will be well prepared for the inauguration of Australian beam telephony in more ways than one, says a London paper. A splendid contribution to this, although it is entirely duo to the recent great extension of ordinary telephony throughout Europe, will be the ability of the telephone girls to speak in various languages. For example, anybody'requiriug to ’phone to Sydney from Berlin, will find a German girl able to call up Svdney in English. The same will bo possible from Paris and other cities. The girls, who are not specially trained, rapidly become expert linguists. So far as the London Post Office is concerned, they are merely ordinary telephone girls who have passed the ordinary telephonists’ examination, but, probably knowing languages before entry, they are then allowed to specialise, and eventually spend periods abroad, while foreign girls come here in exchange for similar training. It is now possible to find almost any language among the London girls.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 13
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165RADIOPHONE GIRLS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 13
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