You urgently need the toilet but can't ask for directions because you don't speak English?
A new app-based translation service is being launched in New Zealand that will help non-English speaking tourists here to do just that.
Mandarin Pages, an Auckland-based Chinese language newspaper, has signed an agreement with Korea Mobile Society to launch an interpretation app service called ExpertT.
Managing editor David Soh said the app would be similar to Uber or Airbnb, and would offer links to hundreds of translators.
"It will be different to Google translate because there will be a human translator who interprets directly, rather than artificial intelligence which cannot pick up local slang and colloquial language," Soh said.