Language is a complicated thing. You could spend years studying a language and still not quite fully grasp all the colloquialisms that native speakers regularly use. So when you visit another country where you don’t really speak the language, it can feel a little nerve-wracking navigating a new space without the help of a local.

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Google Translate is great, but good luck if you want to read anything more than an email or a short article. Recordings, websites and images often show up in languages we can’t read. A tool that deciphers them all is handy indeed.