Google translate for travelling

 I was looking at Duolingo for Swedish and thinking, am I learning useful words? Do I really need to know cat and dog? 

Earworms is geared up to teaching you useful conversation for sitting on a plane and asking for a taxi to the city centre. 

I decided to go into Google translate and look up half a dozen useful words in Swedish and to pick out those which were easy to remember.

Here is the result of my first effort

Which column should I copy? The English first? No because I could not yet remember the Swedish, nor the accents. So, obviously the Swedish words first. Translate them and add memory aids (which you can record if you instead or additionally use the language learning app memrise

Swedish - English

Lycklig - happy (so happy I am licking my lips, similar to the German glücklich)

trött - tired (as you would feel after trotting around all day)
hungry - hungry
thirsty - thirsty
upptagen - busy (all your spare time taken up)
jag behöver - I need (Ja, yes, good it is behoven to me, I'd be happy to have, hover over)
beverage - drink
smörgås - sandwich (Not a whole smorgas board, just a small sandwich would be great, I'd be grateful because I'm gasping with hunger)

Now let's put them in alphabetic order

Swedish - English

beverage - drink

hungry - hungry

I need - I need

Happy - happy

sandwich - sandwich

thirsty - thirsty

tired - tired
busy (up taken)

Then in English first

happy - Happy
tired - tired
hungry - hungry
thirsty - thirsty
busy - occupied
I need - I need
drink - beverage
sandwich - sandwich

Then English in alphabetic order

busy - occupied

happy - Happy
hungry - hungry

sandwich - sandwich
thirsty - thirsty

tired - tired

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Muslim Fasting - From My New Friend

I said to a new friend in Singapore, as we talked during a lunc time break at a contest, "Don't let me keep you. I have a packed lunch. Do you want to go and get your lunch?"

"No, thank you," she said. "I'm fasting, so I'm happy to stay here talking to you. But you eat your packed lunch, if you want to."

I should have remembered. She was wearing a bright colourful, red, head covering.

I asked, "Does it bother you, seeing others eat when you are fasting?"

"Not at all," she said. "I have my timetable. They have theirs. I know other poeple, especially in other countries, are bothered, but I am not."

"You mean Malaysia?"

"Yes, some parts of Malaysia are very strict, about what they let you do in public, and private."

"What if you can't fast? Who is exempted?"

"Women are exempted when they are menstruating. You make up the missed days later."

"What if you can't do that? If you have a long-term illness?"

"Then you give money to the poor and hungry instead."

"Thank you so much for explaining that to me."

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker.

Motivational and Humorous Thoughts Brighten Your Day - Stencilled On Walls At ArtBox

Problem
After you've bought food and drink, and been round all the stalls selling clothes and phone covers, what else is there to see and do.

Answers
Stencilled signs on the walls provide an apoortuntity for photos or Selfies.