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The Department of Tourism in Paris has offered the tourists to learn the Gallic gestures language. The hints on how to interprete body language and the French style of signaling with the hands can be now found at the web-site of the department. The necessity to create such a "conversation book" came to the authorities after the survey that resulted that two thirds of the guests of the French capital are experiencing difficulties in communication with the locals.
Just for example, a simple French gesture that the most of the tourists surely understand wrong. What does it mean when a man raises his hand over the head in Paris? Three of five British respondents said that it is an obvious hint to the coming rain. But actually in France it means "I am fed up" |
