Hi everyone.
Just hoping I can get some help from you all on this.
As you know I'm going around Europe starting Wednesday, and I've just realised that they don't speak English in most of the countries I'm going to.
So could you please help me with some useful phrases?
For example...
1 beer please
HOW MUCH?
Where's the toilet/Do you have a toilet I could use?
Do you have a real toilet and not a hole?
How do i get to...?
Can I have.... please?
I thought i was doing 50 officer.
...and any other useful phrases please (I know I'm leaving myself open on this one lol).
Need translations in French, Italian and German.
Dankjewel!
look up michelle thomas kn amazon. i have bought his italian bourse and the therory is that you will have enought skill and knowledge withing 8 - 12 hours
garages an motorway service areas are brilliant nowadays sellin everything an often servin food an coffee in a cafe! i found myself livin out of them most of the time!! jus pick things up an pay at the desk or point at want yu want!! learnin please an thank you is nice,listen to other customers sayin it an copy!!i loved sayin ''adios amigo'' like bein in a cowboy film!! gave them a laugh anyhow!!an of course you have your toiletts all there so no need to ask!!
I'm with TeeCee on this one - mime and a pleading face always seems to work well for me.
Good to see that you have planned well though Matt lol! You sure you know which direction you should be aiming for lol?
If you're worried then a simple tip is to aim for the sun on an evening if you're wanting to go west and to aim for it again on a morning if you want to go east. (UK is west, Russia is east).
If this sounds sarcastic, good, it was meant to lol!!!!!
All you need is Germany is "Wo ist der bierkeller?" ... Don't bother saying "Voorsprung Durch Technik" cos they just look at you as though you've gone soft in the head.
In Italy, you just pose on the piazzas and admire the pretty ladies, calling out "Bella! Bella!" intermittently. They'll accept you as a local in no time at all.
In France, get a lady to chat to the waiter in pigeon French - her efforts will be appreciated, yours will be dismissed as the pitiful efforts of an Eeenglish pig, or a 'ow you say, lager lout?!
Just be sure to practice your mimes in the mirror before you use them to make sure they are not open to misinterpretation.
I was arrested when I was trying to ask for an aerosol can in Libya and was incarcerated for two months!
I am still in contact with my fellow cell mate...*sigh*
if yu go into a shop the person says can i help yu? do the same abroad an the person ays the same thing we panic!!wtfdhsay!!! use your card in a shop card m/c an we panic when the thing asks for our pin in french[cash m'c's you can select language] but the sequence of procedre is the same! jus low down an think!! we can recognize some similarities in the words as the english language contains a lot of french an other forieghn words!!jus look an think dont panic!!
Not boring, TM - useful information from a guy who has been there and done it!!
(although you could have maybe finished with 'jazz hands' just to add a bit of pazazz...)
Don't get me started, TM.. the whole episode was a farce from start to finish...
I blame my (then) girlfriends atrocious handwriting... in fact, all I had to do was return her books to the LIBRARY!!!
I'm lookin at TM and TC.
There is a certain similarity, but can't quite put my finger on it....
Got it!
They both buy their underpants from M&S!
(strange place to wear them,tho)
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