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Old Mar 16, 2015 | 6:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
The biggest thing you can do is to learn the Greek alphabet, as you can then figure out a lot of signage and print due to similarities of roots with English. I found that after a few days my brain was doing this fairly automatically, and things made a lot more sense.
Yes. Plus get the translation app for either iPhone or Android (usually free) that you can speak into it in English and it will translate to whatever language you want. You can pick up hello and good bye quite quickly then let the app say "I'd like extra fries and no pickles, please"
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