People are talking about how smartphones didn’t have those features at first, but I just carried around a 2 language dictionary when I was traveling before translation apps were a thing. I’m not sure if they’re exactly the same everywhere, but I also always found reading an atlas/map to transfer pretty easily from one country to another (across North America and Europe, so there could be much greater variation in the world than I saw).

It sounds harder and it was, but only a little. You already knew how to read maps and at least you didn’t have to worry about a battery.