"Ich bin Arzt, kein Reiseführer."

Translation: I am a doctor, not a tour guide.

[rainbowpuke]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ jim i'm a doctor

[G-Shumway]

Listen Bones, this is a German course, not a Star Trek convention!

[Phredde]

Lol! Was also thinking about bones. Thanks G-Shumway

[V2Blast]

It's always nice to know other people remember the same exact thing I do :P

[MartinoDeVino]

Funny though this is, it pushes down the useful comment from Saeron
below.

Reiseführer is a travel guide (book) and
Reiseleiter is a travel guide (person)

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/38823987/Reiseleiter-oder-Reisef%C3%BChrer https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/7432708

[marpocky]

Verdammt, Jakob!

[Tombini]

The first translation of Reiseführer is "courier"
When I used it, it was wrong...

[Dariusch]

there is no undefined article in the german version

[estrangeiro77]

The Germans don't normally use articles when saying somebody's occupation.

[Lull0000]

This is actually pretty common for European languages in general it seems. French, Portuguese, and Spanish don't use articles for professions either. English is a bit different than these other languages since it does.

[Seolferwulf]

I'm a doctor not a pool man!

[Saeron]

Reiseführer is a travel guide book and Reiseleiter is a travel guide (person).

[Harry359321]

I thought so

[MartinoDeVino]

Yep.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/38823987/Reiseleiter-oder-Reisef%C3%BChrer
https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/7432708

[judithmack]

So is Duolingo wrong about "Reisefuehrer"? Should we be using "Reiseleiter" instead for a tour guide?

[mikka86]

A little unsure on this (so not reporting an error yet), but is "tour leader" a valid translation of Reisefuehrer? Reise = tour/trip/journey and Fuehrer = leader

[TiagoMoita_PT]

I don't know, but tour guide and tour leader are different things:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/The_difference_between_tour_leader_and_tour_guide?#slide=1

[mikka86]

Its only a subtle difference between them, and most EN native speakers probably would use the terms interchangeably.

I was primarily wondering if German made the distinction between them. ie, one who takes a group of people on a tour through many places - eg. a tour of Europe; versus one who takes many groups of people on tours through a single place - eg. a tour of the Reichstag.

[judithmack]

Why is there a comma in "Ich bin Arzt, kein Reisefuehrer"? I know German has strict punctuation rules so there must be a reason for it. Clauses are separated by commas in German. Perhaps we are to think of certain words as unstated but understood: "Ich bin Arzt, und ich bin kein Reisefuehrer".