Lingo TR-2900 Global 29 Pocket Language Translator

List Price: $60.00 Discount Price: $51.96

Features:

• Covers english, german, french, spanish, italian, dutch, norwegian, swedish, portuguese, finnish, estonian, ukranian, russian, polish, czech, slovakian, hungarian, bulgarian, roumanian, turkish, greek, phonetic hebrew, arabic, chinese, japanese, korean, thai, indonesian
• Currency and Metric conversions
• Clothing and shoe size conversions
• World Time in 200 cities
• 58,000 phrases

Customer Reviews:

Great for General Purposes [Posted on 2007-01-04]
Being a world traveler and not knowing what country I'll be visiting next, this translator seemed perfect. Who knows how many of the 29 languages I'll end up using.
The word-to-word translation is pretty good, but don't look for subtle innuendos or even common slang. It also has a phrase-translation that can be quite humorous - I'm not sure when I'd ever need to translate "I want to be your slave until I die". But it does contain all the typical things a traveler would need - - stuff about hotels, train stations and sight-seeing.
It also has a world clock which is fun and useful.
All-in-all, this translator is exactly what I expected and it a very convienent size to keep in your pocket or purse.
I highly recommend it.

Great Seller [Posted on 2007-01-19]
I waited until the week before Christmas to order this translator as a gift, but it was shipped quickly and arrived on time! I wouldn't hesitate to buy from this seller again.

Useless. [Posted on 2007-12-12]
I bought this in hopes that it would help ease the language barrier while working as a teacher in Korea. I have found it easier to learn Korean than learning how to operate this gadget. I find a $5.00 translation book much more helpful in navigating my new world. However, I did manage to set the time on it, so it's an expensive clock.

Not worth it... [Posted on 2007-12-29]
I speak 3 languages and I am trying to learn a fourth. I thought this would be a useful tool, but it has failed miserably. The translations are incorrect at times and it gives you a limited definition of a word, which can in other languages have more than one meaning. Limited vocabulary, on numerous occasions I tried to translate a standard English word, and the Lingo did not have the word in the 'system'.

Good for basic words only. [Posted on 2008-01-13]
I purchased this dictionary after I saw it advertised as containing close to a half a million words!! I was dissappointed to find out it can only handle the basic words. It seems to be handy for a traveller to a foreign country where you need to ask for a basic item. I needed it for more advanced translation, and that it cannot do. It couldn't handle words like "protocol"!!!

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