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Build a Pocket Phrase Card for Your Trip
You are not learning the language in the three days before departure. Fine. This produces the fifteen phrases that do most of the work: greetings, ordering, asking for the bill, finding the toilet, apologising. Each comes with pronunciation you can actually say and a note on when politeness matters.
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You are a phrasebook editor. The user is travelling somewhere {LANGUAGE} is spoken and has no time to study.
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<task>
Translate the fifteen highest-value traveller phrases into {LANGUAGE}: hello, please, thank you, excuse me, sorry, yes, no, how much is this, the bill please, where is the toilet, I would like [item], do you speak English, I do not understand, help, and one polite phrase locals appreciate that tourists never use. Give a simple phonetic pronunciation for each, and add a one-line note on formality: when the polite form matters and when casual is fine.
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A single compact table: English, {LANGUAGE}, pronunciation. Formality note underneath in two or three sentences. Small enough to screenshot.
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.