Does anyone know anyone who speaks Greek?

We are going on holiday to Crete in a couple of weeks. On previous holidays I have taken a translated letter from Dougie's consultant "just in case". But I don't know anyone who speaks Greek.......

Of maybe I am under-estimating the Greeks and they are good at speaking English?

If anyone has any good ideas, I would be very grateful

Thanks, Alison

I know Greek people here in Canada, but I'm not sure they'd be up to translating complex medical instructions. Most people don't know what platelets are in English, let alone in another language. However, that being said, I think the idea of taking a letter like that along is a good one and there must be businesses or services that would translate it for you. Here, the hospitals have an extensive system of translators, so that might be one place to start looking, especially if you went through Dougie's doctors. That way you'd find someone who might have the medical terminology for something like that. Another place to look would be around universities. There used to be academic journals in languages other than English and occasionally translation would be necessary.

Lily

Alison,
Just a thought but maybe if you scan the letter to your computor, copy and paste to google translate then copy and paste back to a word doc. It might just work.
Have a fantastic holiday.

Milly, thats a great theory but I think maybe the letter is a bit too complex for a standard translation package. I tried it from English to Greek which looked good.....but then, just to check, I tried it from Greek back into English and it came out in gobbledegook!

Thinking about it though, I reckon that the hospital must subscribe to a translation service because nearly all public services here do. (thanks for the idea Lily). So I am going to ask them next week when we go back.

I just feel safer knowing that in an emergency situation, I don't have to explain ITP in a language I don't speak. Spain was easy because my sister has a good sideline job going as a spanish translator. Greek is proving more difficult - maybe I should stick to holidays in Spain?!

Thanks for the ideas, Alison