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Conversations across languages

Practical guides to communicating across languages at work, on the road and in everyday life, with TraduLive.

Illustration of a truck driver and warehouse receptionist at a desk, with a parked truck visible outside

Working across borders · 4 min

International truck drivers: make yourself understood at a stop

Clarify warehouse check-in, loading appointments, workshop visits and accommodation while safely parked.

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Illustration of two adults talking at a welcoming community centre desk, with a phone between them

Settling into daily life · 5 min

Finding your words in a new place: everyday conversations for refugees

School, transport, housing and shopping: keep your own voice in everyday conversations, and know when to ask for an interpreter.

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Illustration of a supervisor and an international colleague talking at a warehouse desk with a phone between them

Communication at work · 4 min

Foreign workers: clearer everyday conversations at work

Help international colleagues understand everyday work, shifts and accommodation. Practical translation habits, examples and limits for employers.

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Illustration: a woman at a taverna table holds up a phone showing a Greek menu translated into English, with the printed menu in front of her

Food abroad · 12 min

Translate a menu abroad: how to order, ask and pay in a language you can't read

Photograph it flat and in good light. Ask the price of anything sold by weight. Say the allergy before you order — and know which lines on the bill are normal.

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Illustration: a phone on a stand on a taverna table shows the waiter's Greek sentence translated into English, between him and a customer

Talking abroad · 12 min

Translation earbuds, a pocket translator or a phone on the table: which one, and where

Who wears what, who presses what, who waits for whom: earbuds, a pocket device and a phone on the table, compared honestly, situation by situation.

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At a restaurant table, a man in a yellow hoodie talks in sign language with the woman across from him; plates and a menu lie between them

Accessible travel · 12 min

Travelling deaf or hard of hearing: airports, hotels, doctors and emergencies

Tell the airline 48 hours ahead. Get the gate change in writing. Know how to text the emergency services where you are going — before you need to.

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A created scene, not a photograph: in a supermarket, a woman holding a jar asks a shop assistant about it

Phones abroad · 12 min

Translation apps abroad: when you need internet, and how to make sure you have it

A live conversation needs a connection. What it uses in data, where roaming costs nothing extra, when an eSIM is worth it — and what to do when the signal goes.

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A traveller with a backpack stands alone on a metro platform at night as a train pulls away in a blur

Travel safety · 12 min

Stolen or lost abroad: what to do in the first 24 hours

Block the cards, get the police report your insurer needs, replace the passport — in the right order, with the rights most travellers never hear about.

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A green pharmacy cross glowing on a dark street at night, reflected in a window

Health abroad · 11 min

Pharmacy abroad: how to get the right medicine in a language you don't speak

Name the molecule, not the brand. Use your prescription across the EU. Find the pharmacy open at 2 a.m. — and say the one sentence that matters most.

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A yellow taxi roof sign glowing at night on top of a cab

Money abroad · 12 min

Overcharged abroad: restaurant bills, taxis, and how to push back

In Greece you need not pay without a receipt. In France tap water is free. From Paris airports the taxi fare is fixed. The rules that protect you — if you can ask.

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