What languages do they use?

The park's official languages are French and English, and signs are multilingual, as are the guidebooks. Hotel reception desks and park information points should be able to attend you in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and now Dutch.

However, the simplest answer appears to be to use whatever language you want! Cast members have flags on their name-tags which should give you an indication of which languages they are fluent in. When we [Tom] first arrived, we tried to use our meagre French (poorly remembered from school). Unfortunately, the cast members would assume we were French and would rattle on to us in French leaving us totally bewildered! We soon found it easier just to speak in English. Note that this is exactly the opposite in Paris where we found we were made far more welcome if we just tried to make ourselves understood in French initially.

James Bohn (jbohn@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu, a former cast member at WDW) noted: In my subjective opinion, the Cast Members are more consistently friendly to more people than the other two parks. Perhaps it's because there are fewer people to be nice to, or perhaps they're fighting to keep the park afloat, who knows? One problem with the Euro-Disneyland Cast Members in general is language. Euro-Disney functions in French, English, German, and Italian (Spanish seems to be ignored, perhaps because of its similarity to Italian?). Euro-Disney Cast Members often know a handful of key statements in all of these languages, but often they haven't learned the 'polite' forms. Thus when getting off a ride, a Cast Member may simply say "off", rather than "please step out to your right".

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