By paul8a on Thursday, 07 November 2013
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I really hope none of us will ever need to contact the emergency services when travelling abroad. The stress of accidents or ill health are bad enough without the need to get your message across in an emergency.

So I've put together some useful words and phrases in a variety of European languages, plus the Europe-wide emergency telephone number - 112. This link will take you to a PDF document in my Public Dropbox here: http://tinyurl.com/o3mjodr. I have also attached the PDF file for those who prefer to download from here.

I can't guarantee the words and phrases are 100% accurate, but they are close enough to allow you to get your message across either on the phone, or pointing to key phrases if dealing with a local speaker.

Please feel free to share this as widely as you like. I've printed off a colour copy, laminated it and keep it in an easily accessible place in our campervan.
Hi paula and thanks for the handy information,one never knows when it may come in handy.Thankfully we,ve never had an accident or had cause to call on emergency services.Except for once ..
Back along in the 80,s we were camping in port grimaud and decided to have a look at Andorra,halfway up there the cambelt went on the Ford transit van 2.5 di.Just managed to coast into a layby and called AA 5 star.They were brilliant spoke in english had a local mechanic out to us in no time.cheers pete
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.......Please feel free to share this as widely as you like.


Thank you very much I'm sure that could be very useful :thumbs:

Ive added it to our download section here Emergency Phone Number and Key Phrases in European Countries
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Many thanks for info. I've downloaded a copy.
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Just one note: for Italian, 'help' should be 'aiuto' (pronounced 'aye-you-t[sup]d[/sup]oe').

While I'm on, could I recommend http://www.wordreference.com which has many language pairs with, for each word, the meanings it has in different contexts. It also has many sample translations of popular phrases. So it is far more useful than a dictionary - if you have an internet connection.
(I should add that I only use it, I'm not associated in any way).
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