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Sometimes, There’s No Translator

Let us hope you never need to communicate distress to people with whom you do not share a language but, if you do, here is a list of the useful cries for help given in Lonely Planet’s “Southeast Asia on a Shoestring” :

• Please call an ambulance
     Suom jouy hao lan peit 
• Please call a dentist
     Suom jouy hao peit thmenh
• Please call a doctor
     Suom jouy hao krou peit
• Please call the police
     Suom jouy hao police
• It’s an emergency
     Nees jea pheap ason
• I’m allergic to penicillin
     Khjoommin trouv theat neoung thanam peneecilleen 
• Water, please
     Tuck, suom