I'm trying to remember how I use to get by before the days of google translate? Especially as I've been to a fair few countries where English speakers are few and far between. A situation springs to mind of sitting on some huge steps outside a fairly imposing building in far Eastern Europe with a big map and my backpack trying to figure out Cyrillic Russian text on a map. I get a tap on the shoulder (with a gun), a man in uniform telling me to move NOW! I was peeved that this official wasn't wil