Once upon a time, I was in Estonia (of all places) and they had a service, you set it up and it was only like a dollar a minute. You’d just call the service and the person would phone ‘n’ translate for you..
IE you’d dial, you’d get one of the bilingual operators, you’d say (in English) please call 555-1212 and book a hair dressing appointment, and they’d do that in Estonian language and translate back and fore on the phone for you as necessary.
Does anyone know of such a “phone – translation” service?
Obviously you can “hire a translator” to do any thing, but this was a ready-made service, hook up your credit card, and they have (I assume) dozens of staff on hand 24/7 to handle the calls, so you could just dial any time and do it.
I’m actually asking “for a friend” (no, really! I personally just wander in to places, smile, make OOOOO sounds at the food and alcohol, and I’m all set 🙂 )
Note that of course this could be Japan-wide, but everything’s cooler in Osaka, locals know more.
Is there such a thing?
by jonny_cheers