Franklin Electronic Spanish/English Translator

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $13.40

Features:

• Over 800,000 Translations/5,500 Phrases for common communication
• Verb Conjugations/EZ Learn user word List
• Includes 5 Games/Calculator and expense manager
• Metric, currency, clothing size converters/World Time Clock & Databank
• Large 2-Line 20 Character/line display

Customer Reviews:

An Okay Translator/calculator [Posted on 2007-05-12]
I've used Spanish/English translators for many years. My first ones were the Seiko Berlitz TR-2720 (with 1.1 million words and phrases). I bought a dozen or more of these for personal use and to give away as gifts. I still have one that works perfectly on its original battery after more than 10 years of use. It remains my all-time favorite. Unfortunately, it isn't manufactured anymore.

Next, I went with a much cheaper translator (the Seiko ET-2240 with 600,000 words), and although it didn't have everything in it and wasn't as easy to use, I became accustomed to it. So, for the cheap price, I bought a dozen or more of these to use or give as gifts. It was lacking some simple words like cat, but overall I became pleased with the product.
This product is now discontinued too.

Since I had purchased the Seiko ET2240s from Franklin, I assumed that I'd get at least the same benefits from the 800,000-word Franklin TES-120. I bought four of them. With the same number of words and almost an identical description as the Seiko ET2250 (they even look identical), I bought the Franklin TES-120 for the cheaper price. I figured that simple-word omissions would have been corrected with the addition of 200,000 words. Unfortunately, it's missing even more words. I've only owned these for a short time, but already I'm not as pleased with it as I was with the Seiko. It still doesn't have the word "cat" in it, but to not have the verb "to find" (or "encontrar") is absurd.

Since it has the occasional word I need to look up and functions as a metric converter for me, I'm rating it as an okay product to buy for the price.

Not bad... [Posted on 2007-05-12]
It does have its faults. May not have all the words you're looking for.
However, for its price, it is definitely usable.

TES 120 translator [Posted on 2007-05-25]
For the size & price, it is just fine.

Fred

translator review [Posted on 2008-01-21]
compact, easy to use,and fun to learn with, this translator is a boon for travelers,and people looking to learn a second language, and at a very reasonable price.

Helpful [Posted on 2008-02-16]
For such an inexpensive translator it was worth it and very helpful on my trip to Spain. It doesn't have every word but did help me to communicate using key words.

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