Seiko-Berlitz is VASTLY superior to the Franklin!

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By Tjdick on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 09:34 pm:  Edit

Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/44otk
...unfortunately, I cannot find more of them anywhere (to give away as gifts). Amazon has discontinued it.

My pocket translators are for Spanish, which has formidable verb inflections.

My Franklin translator just gives the infinitive form of the verb, which is absolutely worthless, un-usable information. For example, if you put in the English verb "go" it spits out "ir." But you can't say "Yo ir" --doesn't make sense. The Seiko Berlitz inflects the verbs for each person and several tenses! Awesome! For example, "You went," "I will go," "We are going," "I would go," etc. Awesome, awesome.

You might find one on e-bay.

By The Gnomes of Zurich on Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 12:12 am:  Edit

That's pretty weird. I've got a Franklin Spanish/English dictionary and it has a button, "CONJ" that vomits out more freaking conjugations than I can shake a stick at.

What model Franklin are you using?

Dem Technophile Gnomes

By Tjdick on Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 05:55 pm:  Edit

I can't find my Franklin now (I might have given it away when I found the Seiko Berlitz), but it must have been older than the one you have. It's good to know one can still buy one that conjugates verbs. That's critical in Spanish.

By Gregorio on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 10:30 am:  Edit

Don't confuse electronic translators with electronic dictionaries!!!

Translators are very basic tools and half the price of a dictionary.

By Xenono on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 05:04 pm:  Edit

I was thinking about getting this for my upcoming trip.

It does English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese and is backlit, which is important for in the termas and clubs.

By Xenono on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 05:05 pm:  Edit

Whoops! Here it is:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056WOQ/ref=e_de_a_smtpd/103-2192370-9814261?v=glance&s=electronics&vi=tech-data

By Tight_fit on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 09:42 pm:  Edit

Has anyone bought an ENTACO speaking translator? Their English-Portuguese one is $199 with over 450k translations. It looks nice.


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