Geocaching in non-English-speaking countries

[buzzkimball]

I'm sure this has been addressed ad nauseam somewhere, but I haven't found it. I will be traveling to Belgium and Germany soon (from my home in Australia) and would love to do some geocaching while there, but will I assume I'll have to grapple with descriptions and hints in Flemish and German, which I don't speak very well. Any wisdom to impart? In case it's a factor, I have been using the iPhone application. But I don't want to invest in a GPS yet if I won't be able to read instructions. Thanks.

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

I'm sure this has been addressed ad nauseam somewhere, but I haven't found it. I will be traveling to Belgium and Germany soon (from my home in Australia) and would love to do some geocaching while there, but will I assume I'll have to grapple with descriptions and hints in Flemish and German, which I don't speak very well. Any wisdom to impart? In case it's a factor, I have been using the iPhone application. But I don't want to invest in a GPS yet if I won't be able to read instructions. Thanks.

Online translating tools are available(like Google Language tools) you'd have to do a bit of work though to use them

[+boulist44]

Living in France I get this problem on a regular basis. I use Google page translation which works reasonably well with one major problem.

Sometimes it tends to rearrange some calculations when doing multies or ? caches. A couple of times the results have been miles adrift. Otherwise it's not bad and sometimes quite funny but damned frustrating.

[+bladesedge]

Whenever I've needed translations I've used Babelfish (google it). When I first started using it, it was Alta Vista Babelfish - I can't remember who owns it now. Its just a web page. You copy and paste the text in, select the language to and from and it translates it.

[+t4e]

a lot of CO put english descriptions too for their caches

you could just pick those

 

also you don't always need the description

and for "hints", when i was in netherlands i just asked people on the street to translate for me lol

Edited February 2, 2010 by t4e

[+StarBrand]

http://www.microsofttranslator.com

 

Does enough of a job to get the idea. All the online translators are not real perfect at translations.

[buzzkimball]

Thanks to all of you who responded. I appreciate it.