Translate over 250,000 unique words, to and from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Large color LCD screen is ideal for viewing. Comprehensive 5 language Visual Dictionary with over 18,000 entries (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish). Over 2,000 Key Travel and Everyday Phrases. Built-in travel guide for 10 cities (Barcelona, Bejing, Berlin, Chicago, London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Tokyo) give easy access to key travel information such as hotels, restaurants and area attractions. Easy navigation keys located on screen-in-lid design.
FEATURES –
- Rechargeable battery.
- Large color LCD screen is ideal for viewing.
- Comprehensive Multilingual Visual Dictionary.
SAMPLE CUSTOMER REVIEWS –
1) State of the art machine - I have played around with this translator for a couple of weeks now and am very impressed. The translations seem very good and it is easy to switch languages. I have varying degrees of familiarity with Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch and all worked out well.
The Japanese is really good. It may not be any use to a person who does not read Japanese, but it would be useless as a Japanese translator if it showed everything in the Roman alphabet. In Japanese and Chinese, you cannot necessarily tell how to pronounce something from the written text, so the vocalizations are vital. This does not substitute for a dedicated Japanese-English dictionary, though. There is no way to search kanji.It takes a 2gb micro SD card and I could listen to music in the background while I worked away. There is an agenda, a clock with two time zones, a calculator, calendar and memo feature. The box comes with a bunch of adapters for different countries. The colour screen is great. The Franklin web site is so poor, you would not know about many of these features.
There were two features that were less useful. One is the "travel" section which has an alphabetical list of restaurants and some sights for a few major cities. There are no reviews or descriptions. The other limitation is the photo feature. I had photos on my SD card, but they came out distorted on the screen. I think that if you had the right size, it might look OK, but I did not find any instructions on how to convert.
A previous review suggested that there may be better products out there. If that is the case, I do not know about them. My first electronic dictionary was by Etaco and the translations were a joke. I have two previous Frnaklin Spanish-English dictionaries and I have found them to be pretty good. I also have a Casio for English-Japanese. There is no translator that can take a random sentence and produce a credible translation in another language.
By SI on July 15, 2011
2) Franklin communicator - This Franklin EST-7014 is a terrific aid while on vacation or traveling overseas. I'm retired military, and I jump'd on a USAF Space "A" flight to Ramstein, Germany using this 14-language talking translator on numerous occasions in talking and non-talking mode. Went to a train station booth asking the ticket agent if she spoke english, she snub'd her nose, shaking her head "no" and went back to doing her cross-word puzzle...when I pushed the button on the Franklin transx and it asked the question "when is the next train to (I added: Manheim)" she laughed and started helping me with better english than I speak.
When I'm learning a foreign language I use this translator with ear-phones so nobody else knows what I'm doing. This EST-7014 helped me with all kinds of functions; in addition, it has calculator, auto-country time/date, trip elapse time/stop watch (flight/train), exchange-rate currency converter, and automatic button to switch my favorite phrases from one language to another... it's a blast to use, especially in Europe and SE Asia where I visit multiple countries within a couple weeks.
Also, the recharging plug-in attachments that comes with it work great for that 220 European/Asian voltage...this Franklin is more than worth the money for me.
By Kerry Allan Painter on February 17, 2012
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