Translator for Euro Travel?
12-27-2023, 05:05 AM
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Translator for Euro Travel?
Planning a 2 week euro trip in February. Currently planning to hit France, Greece, and Italy. Do you guys recommend any translator apps that you use on overnights or vacations? Trying to at least attempt to communicate in the country's native language. Doesn't have to be perfect but enough to get around etc.
Happy holidays and safe flying!
FJ
Happy holidays and safe flying!
FJ
12-27-2023, 05:23 AM
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Hi, Google Translate does everything you'll need. A nice feature it has is that you can take a photo of what you'd like translated and it will translate it. That will help in Greece where the letters are different than English.
Good luck and I hope you enjoy your trip.
Mark
Good luck and I hope you enjoy your trip.
Mark
12-27-2023, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by flying4401
Planning a 2 week euro trip in February. Currently planning to hit France, Greece, and Italy. Do you guys recommend any translator apps that you use on overnights or vacations? Trying to at least attempt to communicate in the country's native language. Doesn't have to be perfect but enough to get around etc.
Happy holidays and safe flying!
FJ
Happy holidays and safe flying!
FJ
Also get an offline map app for driving as service is shotty. And lastly, if your phone is unlocked and accepts an esim, get the Airalo app for data. You can’t make calls but you can use your data for everything else, FaceTime, WhatsApp, etc. It’s pretty cheap too. Like 20 bucks for 5 gigs is plenty of data. You can get a regional esim that will work in all of those countries.
12-27-2023, 06:44 AM
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Google translate is what I use, however it doesn’t do long sentences very well.
Also if you translate back and forth a couple of times it usually turns into gobblygook.
You can download languages for offline use.
Nifty little feature is that you can select screen wide translation and it got a pointer that if you have it in the top right corner shows correct orientation so you’re not showing it to upside down.
Handy in places with different alphabets.
Also if you translate back and forth a couple of times it usually turns into gobblygook.
You can download languages for offline use.
Nifty little feature is that you can select screen wide translation and it got a pointer that if you have it in the top right corner shows correct orientation so you’re not showing it to upside down.
Handy in places with different alphabets.
Last edited by TiredSoul; 12-27-2023 at 06:57 AM.
12-27-2023, 08:52 AM
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1) yes google translate
2) the amount of english spoken is impressive if your reference point was 20-30 years ago. It's the common language when non-english speaking europeans need to bridge a language gap. Slovaks visiting Greece don't speak greek...
2) the amount of english spoken is impressive if your reference point was 20-30 years ago. It's the common language when non-english speaking europeans need to bridge a language gap. Slovaks visiting Greece don't speak greek...
12-27-2023, 11:10 AM
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Translate has a camera option that’s awesome (works great in restaurants. You just hold it over the menu items and it translates the words while you are looking at them). Works “live” so to speak. I’ve used it in Europe, Greece, Turkey, Jordan and Israel. You can download language packs.
12-27-2023, 01:00 PM
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In all three countries (actually most) anyone under 50 speaks or at least understands a passable amount of English. As it gets more rural, less so. But almost without exception, use of common greetings and simple phrases will buy you tremendous goodwill even if they do understand English. Even in Paris. Greek is trickier because you have to transliterate first, but even a few words without a phone are gold.
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