translators

Franklin TES-121 Spanish-English Phrasebook & Translator
$17.99
Couldn't get any better translator than this unless it would be one to pronounce the words. Easy to use and small to carry.

Lingo World Traveler Translator (TR-4400)
$119.95
We're about to travel on a Med Cruise and I bought this for my husband on our anniversary. He must love it since I haven't been able to touch it since! :)

Franklin TG-450 12 Language Translator
$39.99
If you need very basic expressions and vocabulary and you need to translate into different languages, then this may be for you.

I purchased this as an economical German-, Dutch-, French-, and Spanish - English dictionary (It has 12 languages in all). With this I can look up some very common words - and I can see expressions using those words to boot. This is very nice and convenient for me.

Sadly, I tend to be fairly demanding of translators and will frequently come across words that most electronic dictionaries don't have. The word reminiscence - or anything like it is not there, for example and there are many such examples you will find. {For this, I will use more elaborate electronic dictionaries, or better yet, a big book!}

For those of us who use the Russian dictionary: The Russian keyboard is inconvenient, to put it mildly! Picture a standard keyboard but not QWERTY, rather ABCDEF. I think it would drive most of us nuts. (The ENGLISH keyboard is perfectly normal). On the postive side, the translator DOES offer Russian!

All-in-all, for the price and for translating into many, many languages, I think it is pretty good. If you're going to travel to many different countries and you need info on those languages, I think you'll like this. I do. If you're a native English speaker like me and you're about to read War and Peace in the original Russian, you REALLY need to look elsewhere!

Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE11 Talking Travel Translator for 11 International Languages
$67.99
We purchased this translator based on the good reviews on Amazon. We tried to translate from English to Japanese. When the "Translate" button is pushed the unit reboots itself from time to time, and all the setup information and saved phrases are all erased each time. This makes the unit completely unusable for us. They did not test each language thoroughly.