Guides

Practical, tested advice for talking with people who speak another language.

• How to have a real conversation through a translator app

  Ten habits that make app-translated conversations work: short sentences, clean pauses, checking numbers, phone position and when to find a human interpreter.

  5 min read

• Egyptian Arabic for travellers: what changes from standard Arabic

  Going to Egypt? Egyptian Arabic differs from textbook Arabic in sounds, question words and everyday words. What matters most, with phrases for day one.

  6 min read