Are you on a holiday and planning to visit the exotic east or the wondrous west? So, you must have booked your tickets, reserved hotels and packed your favorite clothes and accessories. You have checked your bank balance, paid off credit cards, bought travelers cheques, but one doubt remains in your mind. More than a doubt it is some kind of an apprehensive fear. The fear of not knowing the local language of the place you are visiting!
There are books to help you learn quick phrases to converse in a foreign language, but you can’t do it when you are late for a train or while arguing with an irritated cop in mainland China for example. And why waste time poring over books while you can just press a button and hear the translation of the sentence you want to utter or understand!
Here is a tiny pocket gadget - Talking Translator - which will perform exactly this function! You can just keep it in your pocket and travel around the world and enjoy your holidays without worrying about how to talk or understand a foreign language. The gadget from Taylor Gifts is preloaded with over 8,400 phrases in 8 conversational categories and has several languages. It not only displays the phrase but also plays them in the right pronunciation, so you don’t have to worry about sounding or reading. Both are accomplished with this small pocket gadget.
The gadget supports French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and English and comes with a headphone jack so you don’t have to let the other person know what you are listening to.
But, the only flaw I find in the gadget is that it has a keypad with the basic controls. There is no keyboard. How in the world am I going to find the right phrase among the 8,400 and how convenient is it or how difficult it will be, we will know only after some users try and provide feedback. We have to wait to know its functionality and efficiency.
For now, you can only order it online from Taylor Gifts. Priced at $69.98 it will be delivered via courier/ mail to your home.
