Bottles in Translation.

• Author: Peterson, Eric

Traveling through Europe in 2003, Steve Margolin found himself flipping through his phrase book on a regular basis. "I don't speak Spanish or French, and we were in Spain and France," he said. "But I always had a water bottle with me." Margolin, a Longmont high school history teacher, put two and two together and started Bottles in Translation when he got home. The company's 32-ounce Nalgene water bottles come with 100 words and phrases in one of three languages (Spanish, French or Italian), with everything from "yes" and "no" to "beer"...