Asking the right question
By Rajesh Setty on Tue 27 Nov 2007, 12:08 PM – 2 Comments
On the first day of our trip to Germany we signed up for a day trip called the “Royal Castle Tour” (which was wonderful by the way).
Before starting the tour, the host collected tickets from each one of us and asked only one question – “Where are you from?”. However, the answers were many. Here are some of them
1. United States
2. Germany
3. Le Meridian Hotel
4. US
5. New York
There were at least eight different answers and the host had to ask multiple follow-up questions to find out what she really wanted.
Later I figured out that the reason host wanted to find out “where people came from” was for her to mainly understand the mix of languages spoken by the people on the bus.
May be changing the question would have helped?
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Timo on September 30th, 2008
May be the changing the question would have helped?
Rajesh please remove the first ‘the’ in the question above. Best always, Timo.
PS: Thanks for the plug re ‘the tourist——”. At this rate we will all be famous!
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Ram on November 29th, 2007
For a tour guide, perhaps starting off the conversation with “Where are you from?” has worked very well in her tenure