Do your ATMs prompt you in several languages?

In My Humble Opinion
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Aye, I got a Welsh option when I took cash out in Aberystwyth last week. Multiple banks must offer that option in Wales, because I don’t think it was a Barclays machine I was at.

Otherwise I don’t get any language options when I’m at an ATM in England. I don’t use ATMs as much in the US because I just use my debit card all the time, but I don’t remember my bank’s machines offering language options either. My bank is a credit union local to my mostly-monolingual hometown, so I expect they don’t find much call for anything besides English on their ATMs.

42

We have eight languages standard on the ATMs I use. The kicker - those are all official languages in South Africa (and not all of them, either).

43

I’m in Israel.

If I go to our local ATM and use my card from our Israeli account, I will only get Hebrew on the screen.

If I use my card from our American bank account, it will prompt me for either Hebrew or English.

I wonder if Russian is a choice if someone uses a Russian bank card; there are a lot of Russians where we live.

44

According to this article, they don’t. (Even those from the Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba. :slight_smile: )

Irish ATMs do offer an Irish-language option, though, IIRC.

45

Interesting, thanks. I’d guess the banks don’t think Gaelic is worth the effort - there are, what, 80,000-odd people who speak it, out of 5 million Scots. And I’d guess that they pretty much all speak English as well.

46

The splash screen on my Canadian bank’s ATMs are multilingual, including Chinese dialect(s), but as soon as I insert my debit card, the machine uses English.

IIRC, the ATMs in Banff include Japanese.

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PNC Bank actually does that. You tell the ATM your preferred language once, and the system remembers it.