翻译精灵：您的私人随身翻‪译‬ 4+

Imagine you are in Puerto Rico for a well deserved holiday. You are staying in a lovely Airbnb apartment in San Juan. Out of the blue, a series of earthquakes shake your building during the night . What do you do? You rush out to the hallway of your building where a couple of neighbors are gathered. You are given some kind of official paper. Your Spanish is marginal at best. Are you going to sit there with Google translate trying to make sense of the instructions on that piece of paper? Are you going to corner some panicked neighbor to get them to dictate something into a translation app while your building is shaking? This is the situation my husband and I found ourselves in. Jeenie was a God send! We simply grabbed our iPhone, pressed “Connect” on the Jeenie app and a calm, bilingual human came on line. He was our “mouth and ears”. Clearly translated what we needed to do, helped us to interact with our neighbors, even translated the local news channel’s up to the minute reports. After this experience, I would say to anyone, that they would be crazy to travel anywhere, (even within the US) without Jeenie!

This past December, I went on a trip to China, and this app really helped me out. After struggling through some feeble google translate attempts, I connected to Jeenie for those moments when I NEEDED to be understood (hotel reservations, flights etc). Having the knowledge that with one click I could once again seamlessly understand and communicate in the situation was an enormously relief and extremely comforting in an unfamiliar environment. The linguists on the calls were competent and helped me resolve sticky situations (like to fix a mess up my hotels reservation date immediately).I definitely will keep Jeenie in my back pocket for my next travels.

SO THANKFUL FOR THIS APP. I recently went down to Mexico for a friend’s wedding. I can middle through with the rest using my 7th grade Spanish, but turns out that the hotel overbooked and screwed up our room reservation, our shuttle mixed up the pick-up date, and the travel organizer for the wedding didn’t speak English but was trying to help us find a new hotel.

Anyway, found this app, downloaded and added minutes using the airport WiFi, and was able to deal with all sorts of last minute craziness thanks to my own personal Jeenie. If I didn’t have the app I’m not sure what I would’ve done...