Optical related translations
Hello there...Thank you for allowing me to use this guide. I am an Optician and own an Optical shop. I am trying to be able to converse to my Hispanic community that comes in for eye exams and also purchases eyeglasses. My Mom who was Hispanic, only taught me the bad words. Ha ! That isn't much help as I try to retain my customers. Some topics include: scheduling appointments, explaining various sales, understanding my patients various vision needs and their particular budgets, directing patients to the Doctors room and occasionally helping the Doctor to communicate to the Patient while performing the exam.
5 Answers
It is a better idea if you tell us the sentences you need and make an attempt at translation.
Use the translator above if you need to.
Then we can help where the translator does a bad job.
Maybe something like this would be helpful ...
In your profile, you did not indicate any proficiency level in Spanish or your location. (I will say though the choices for proficiency level here are not terribly meaningful. A lot of us who have been studying Spanish for a while still list ourselves as a beginner - in my case that is still true. The next choice up the scale is Intermediate and I do not have a reasonable measure of when I would reach that level. I think that Beginner, Able to Communicate, Conversant, Fluent and Native Speaker would be more meaningful.) Please excuse the side track but I think it is relevant.
If you are in an English speaking country and retain some knowledge of Spanish, yes it might be useful to memorize some phrases to use with your customers. If you really know no significant amount of Spanish, trying to use those phrases would not work very well. You would say something that you memorized and your customer would ask you a question or say something that you do not understand and game over.
If you want to learn some Spanish there are several alternatives. I study part time at a local university. This site is a good resource but, since i study mainly in classes, I do not have a very good feel for how much time would need to be spent here to learn an adequate amount. At many, if not most, public libraries (US) a CD learning series called the Pimsleur approach is available and is pretty good. Just search for "Pimsleur". One good part of this is that it can be done in the car. I wish you the best, Buena suerte.
s)
Use the translators,they are very helpful for simple sentences.Then ask a question when you get confused.,all the best.
We have many flashcards. Put some terms like medical terminology and search and you can find a lot of things to practice.
