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communicate in any language, easy!

Used these all over Europe with great ease, sometimes you just don't know the words for what you want................have a look here.....

PocketComms the Perfect Travel Communication Aid

worth £10 in my view.......no connection, just a cheap and useful purchase...

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Brilliant

What a brilliant idea!
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Great

You just saved me a load of work, I was in the process of writing out names of common objects in different languages and hadn't a clue how to pronounce most of them.

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This link http://www.spectronics.co.nz/downloa...re%20Index.pdf is for a 60 page pdf of picture symbols which is indexed. Maybe a little too comprehensive, but free!!
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Buenisimo!! Great idea!!!
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oh very useful - thank you!

Much better than my £80 Russian course which has resulted in me knowing zero of the language :-)

(downloading the PDF now - I'm sure if it gets laminated it'll work but that pocket thing... very handy)

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Picked a simmilar one up in stamfords a few years ago. Very usefull and saves having to climb over the counter to get what you want anddon't know the name
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Arrow point it

Another solution:



POINT-IT picture dictionary Graf Editions
as mentioned in a thread a while back

Nice, though a little small it gives a few smiles.
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convert what u got

couldnt u do the same with a phone or palmtop, mp3,ipod with clipart type images?
a memory card could be easily filled with everything you could need and then stuck in when needed. some cameras and gps[not sure] could also be used for same thing.
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