Written on July 31, 2009 – 5:16 am | by Maria Mihale |
For some of the people I know learning a foreign language is the most difficult tasks of them all. I once heard my brother say he would rather spend a whole week doing math exercises than reading a page of an English or French book. He finds these languages (or maybe learning them) very difficult and boring, even if he’s aware of the fact that he will always need them, no matter what he does.



As far as I’m concerned, it’s kind of frustrating when I need to go to a different country where I just cannot express myself that way I would like to. On the other hand, learning Czech just because you’ll spend a week or so in Prague, is useless.



In the given context, the Trinvo Talking Translator is precisely what I would need in order to find my way out of some difficult and awkward situations. The device is designed to translate whatever you might want to say in 12 different languages, “spoken in a human voice in the native language”. There are more than 750 travel-related sentences that people use on a regular basis and a dictionary with more than 2,500 words.

The 12 international languages include: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish and, of course, English.

As for the features, there is a save and recall function that you can use whenever you run into the most commonly used sentences, a rotary dial wheel that allows a fast and easy navigation, home time and world time both displayed, a 3.5mm earphone jack, auto power off, LCD with LED backlight timer, games such as Hangman and Quiz, currency and metric converter and an alarm.

The device can be bought from Gadget Shop for £34.99.

(Source: Dvice)