Apps are available that will help with:
- learning a language
- listing helpful phrases for you to speak
- speak the phrases that you choose
- translate from one language to another
Search on the App Store for your device for a suitable app.
Online Language Courses
Online courses, for example on YouTube, allow you to hear pronunciation by a person who understands the local language.
Many start with basic politeness and important expressions
Translation Apps
There are a number of websites that will provide translation of words or phrases into English or from English to another language.
They also often can play an audio clip of someone saying the word or phrase.
Some apps will do a direct translation by speaking the phrase you say into another language and then replaying it so local person can understand.
Be aware that most of these apps need an internet connection to work and will consume data at overseas roaming rates.
It is also possible in some apps to hold a phone camera over printed text in a sign or other source and for the information to be translated to English.
This is especially helpful when the printed script is not of a European language (eg Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Arabic etc)