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How to Find Your Way Back!

An excellent hint I read somewhere: If you are in a country where your native language is not spoken, there are several things you can do to aid your return to your hotel: 

  • have the hotel staff write on the back of a postcard of your hotel: "Take Me Here" in the native language of the area in case you get lost. Also, if you have a digital camera or cell phone w/camera)... 
  • take a picture of your hotel or street signs of the nearest intersection. 
  • carry a card or stationary listing the hotel's address, phone #. 


Communicate with Pictures

Picture Books - since pictures are universally understood, these books are a creative way to communicate when you can't speak the local language:


Foreign language training and translators

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Learn to Speak a Foreign Language


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