Best Apps for Rome
Dec 4, 2016, 3:54 pm
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Best Apps for Rome
From Romeing, October 2016
Rome in your Pocket: Best apps for foreigners in Rome
(Please add to this thread if you can).
Rome in your Pocket: Best apps for foreigners in Rome
(Please add to this thread if you can).
Last edited by JBD; Dec 4, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Dec 4, 2016, 3:58 pm
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For dining: Elizabeth Minchilli's app
Dec 4, 2016, 4:00 pm
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Katie Parla's app
This is already listed in Romeing's selections seen in the first post, but adding it here for convenience:
http://katieparla.com/apps/
http://katieparla.com/apps/
Dec 4, 2016, 4:01 pm
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Dec 4, 2016, 7:30 pm
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Those seem like great apps! Duolinguo, which is free, is very highly recommended by teachers of Italian. The only app I'd question is "Medinaction," which promises to send a qualified doctor to your hotel if you get sick, like a house call. You pay through the nose on that.
By law, all emergency medical treatments in Italian hospitals are free. If you go to the ER because you are having a heart attack and they do emergency cardiac surgery, and you are in the intensive care unit for a month, and in the hospital for two months, it is free, regardless of where you are from. You might have a 20-30 euro co-pay, and that's it.
If someone doesn't want to go to the ER and is willing to pay the 150 euro fee, that's a personal choice. But if you are sick, they are going to send you to the ER because there is nothing they can do for you in a hotel room that a trip to the pharmacy can't do. Pharmacists have a lot more scope than in the USA.
Thank you, I downloaded more than a few of them.
By law, all emergency medical treatments in Italian hospitals are free. If you go to the ER because you are having a heart attack and they do emergency cardiac surgery, and you are in the intensive care unit for a month, and in the hospital for two months, it is free, regardless of where you are from. You might have a 20-30 euro co-pay, and that's it.
If someone doesn't want to go to the ER and is willing to pay the 150 euro fee, that's a personal choice. But if you are sick, they are going to send you to the ER because there is nothing they can do for you in a hotel room that a trip to the pharmacy can't do. Pharmacists have a lot more scope than in the USA.
Thank you, I downloaded more than a few of them.
Last edited by Perche; Dec 4, 2016 at 7:37 pm