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 19-07-11, 17:43
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English to Frensh phrases. Help needed with translation.
Europe trip is fast approaching and i thought it wise to put some relevant phrases in writing for the French portion of my trip> in Italy i will be fine but i cant speak a word of French so needed a little help. The online translators are pant from what i can tell. So if anyone can translate the following i would appreciate it tonnes!
I have a flat tyre! My bike wont go! Do you know a garage that could help me? Im out of petrol! Do you know where I can get petrol? Is there a camp site close by? Can I camp here just for 1 night please? Do you have a room for one person for one night please? How much? Do you have secure parking or a garage for my bike? Bottled water? Drinking water? Where can I get food close by? Is there a toilet close buy? Where are the toilets? I need medical help! Is there a hospital close by? Call an ambulance for me! Ive crashed my bike! Here are my medical details. Im lost. Which way to �........? Cheers for any help guys and gals! Dan |
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19-07-11, 19:21
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Try Babel Fish.
Always close enough for me.
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19-07-11, 21:27
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Will give it a go. Cheers
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20-07-11, 10:49
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Translating useful phrases is OK - but will you understand the reply?
Phrase books only work if both parties are prepared to conduct a conversation while both reading from the same phrase book !!! :-) |
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20-07-11, 10:59
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20-07-11, 10:59
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Dorling Kindersley do a compact phrasebook for 14 languages, including pronunciation, which in my experience is the biggest problem to communication (remembering how the guy at the bar fell off his stool laughing at TenereDoug asking for a table in Portuguese)
ISBN - 0-7513-2144-3 Cost about �6, and can easily fit in your pocket, a little bigger round the edges and twice the thickness of an iPhone Mine has seen service all over the place and it's quite useful as both parties can see the text. If you start any conversation with 'hello' (in native tounge) this usually leads to the rest of the chat being in english!
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20-07-11, 11:06
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If you've got an iPhone... there's an app for that (�0.69 called teletext see link:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/frenc...378079493?mt=8 ) which even speaks the phrase to the unsuspecting frenchman or frenchlady, because believe you me, you might have all the phrase books in the world, but if you read it with a broken accent chances are, they won't understand a bleeping word of it!
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20-07-11, 22:59
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05-08-11, 21:59
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Cheers Graham. Im off in the morning!
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