Ectaco ECS430T Chinese-English-Spanish Talking electronic dictionary

by Ectaco

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002RLOOW
• Item model number: ECS430T
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,163 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 16, 2004

Product Description

Product Description English-Chinese traditional, English-Spanish, Spanish-Chinese traditional bidirectional dictionaries of approx. 650,000 words, including medical, technical, legal, and business terms, as well as slang, idioms, and general expressions. Provides 6 methods to input Chinese characters: ChangJie, Simple, PinYin, Cantonese, Strokes, and Radical. Unlimited voice synthesis in English, and Spanish is able to pronounce any text, not only dictionary entries. Over 1,100 commonly used and emergency phrases on 12 topics will help you feel comfortable in almost any situation on a foreign trip. Usage of this model will make your working with a foreign language easy and convenient. Just type in a few letters of a word and the dictionary will automatically display words starting with these letters. When you are unsure of the proper words spelling, the Vector Ultima spell-checker allows you to enter the word as you hear it and to choose a spelling version from the suggestions list. New words recording function will allow you to customize your dictionary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very poor translator in Chinese, August 26, 2007

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Mateo Chuang (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ectaco ECS430T Chinese-English-Spanish Talking electronic dictionary (Electronics)

I'm a Tranditional Chinese speaker(from Taiwan) and can speak both english and spanish but not good enough that's why I bought this Chinese-English-Spanish translator.
the first 2 or 3 hours after I got this one, I can't believe this poor one why it can call "dictionary", there are many wrong words, strange words, unuseful words and simplified words (use in China) in Chinese.

and this "dictionary" say it has "approx. 650,000 words", but compare to my paper spanish-chinese dictionary ( 54, 000 words), my paper dictionary is very very very very better than the poor one.

and yes, sometimes the poor one is useful when I'm traveling, because I just need to take one dictionary with me, but for a serious language learner, its really poor, when I was traveling in New Zealand (5 month) I took this one first then I bought another paper english-chinese dictionary in there.

by the way, I bought this one about 1 year ago, I dont know if there has new version, but I dont except it....and why I didnt return this one, thats because I bought this when I was in latin america, it cost me extra 50 us dollar in post fee and I need to pay money to send it back , it didnt worth to do that......