Contact: Dr. Pat M. Boone, 719-884-0084

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 29 /Standard Newswire/ -- It's bad enough to have H1N1 in your own country, but what can travelers do when they become sick in a country that doesn't speak their language? How can they communicate with local doctors, nurses and hospitals?

Prior to H1N1, many travelers just depended on local travel guides, if they were tourists, or interpreters, if they were business travelers. Today, that reliance is becoming a thing of the past, as travelers consider the possibility that they might be exposed to the dreaded swine flu in another country.

What can you do to protect yourself? There's no way to learn a language overnight, or in the few weeks or months before your trip.

Way! Enter Dr. Pat M. Boone, a psychologist and author of a new language paradigm that she calls "drive-thru language." Frustrated with not being able to talk with the locals when she traveled, she spent five years analyzing language and the essence of what people say. Fortunately for travelers, just in time for H1N1, she came up with the revolutionary concept that is behind "How To Get What You Want in Any Language."

The secret to communicating with a doctor when you're sick who speaks another language, according to Boone, is the same as building a house. You need a foundation, and, in this case, the foundation to learn another language is less than 100 specific words and phrases. If you can learn those specific words and phrases, the other words (the windows, doors, walls and roof, if you will) are for reference only, and don't need to be memorized. Boone says you only need to be able to reference them in your book. And with her foresight as an experienced traveler, she even provided a special health and "where does it hurt" section for medical emergencies.

"How To Get What You Want in Any Language" is available on Amazon.com.