{"id":18673,"date":"2013-08-29T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18673"},"modified":"2013-08-29T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:00:39","slug":"thursday-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18673","title":{"rendered":"Parlez-vous\u2026an app to help"},"content":{"rendered":"

One time, it happened on a street corner in <\/span>Paris<\/a>, in the dark. We were trying to find our way around a city we were visiting for the first time and we encountered a couple of locals whom we hoped would help. They spoke no English. We had three kids and six words of French in our vocabulary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another time, we were on a public bus in Cabo San Lucas<\/a>. We were searching for the Hotel California, for some bizarre reason, and we missed our stop. The <\/span>\"\"<\/a>people on the bus tried to help, and ultimately did, despite the fact we knew 10 words of Spanish and could comprehend much less.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are just two examples of the things that can happen when you don't know the language,  a common occurrence for cruise-ship passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now…yes, you knew there was something coming, didn't you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruise Lingo!<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an app that can be downloaded to almost any kind of phone or tablet. It's courtesy of Celebrity Cruises<\/a>. That is, the standard version is courtesy…if you want to go a step further and try to engage somebody in conversation in their language, the cost ranges from $9.99 to $49.99. More dollars, more languages, more words.<\/span><\/p>\n

You enter your phrase in one language, it translates it into the language of choice, and displays it and speaks it back to you — or better yet, to the person who doesn't know what you want to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we downloaded the free app yesterday and tried it out. Any of you can do the same thing, of course, and make your own assessment. Our "Coles Notes" assessment is this: If you need to get (or convey) some basic information from somebody whose language is foreign to you, the free app will do the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where was it on the street corner in Paris, all those years ago?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Norwegian Star<\/a>
\n\t14 nights<\/span>
\n\tNovember 24, 2013<\/span>
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a>, <\/span>Cabo San Lucas<\/a>, <\/span>Puerto Vallarta<\/a>, <\/span>Huatulco<\/a>, <\/span>Puerto Chiapas,<\/a> <\/span>Panama Canal<\/a>, Cartagena, <\/span>Miami<\/a>
\n\tInside: $699<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $49<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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One time, it happened on a street corner in Paris, in the dark. We were trying to find our way around a city we were visiting for the first time and we encountered a couple of locals whom we hoped would help. They spoke no English. We had three kids and six words of French… Continue reading Parlez-vous\u2026an app to help<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,36,15],"tags":[109,138,912,72,1348,35,1349,126,426,79,1350],"class_list":["post-18673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-cabo-san-lucas","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-lingo","tag-cruises","tag-languages","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-star","tag-panama-canal","tag-paris","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}