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- Rechargeable battery.
- Large color LCD screen is ideal for viewing.
- Comprehensive Multilingual Visual Dictionary.
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Languages
The EST-7014 features 2.5 Million entries to and from 14 languages. Asian, Russian, and Turkish translations are displayed in their native characters as well as their Romanized equivalent. All speech files were recorded in real human voice by local speakers for authentic pronunciations. Simply press the color coded "Speaker" key on the keyboard to activate the speech function. The EST-7014 also features a high contrast color screen that is easy to read in any lighting condition.
Phrases
The EST-7014 includes over 2,000 useful phrases broken into 14 categories of "Everyday Phrases" and 13 categories of "Travel Phrases" so you can quickly find exactly what you are looking for. Each phrase is recorded in clear human speech by a local speaker so you can easily communicate while traveling, or perfect your pronunciation while learning another language.
Visual Dictionary
Another amazing feature of the EST-7014 is the Visual Dictionary with more than 18,000 entries. This 5-language (English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) reference source is an invaluable tool for exploring another language. Broken into 17 categories and then hundreds of sub-categories, you can easily search the database in categories such as; Animal Kingdom, Food and Kitchen, Human Being, Sports and Games, and many more. When you reach the desired entry, simply press the number or letter button on the keyboard that corresponds with the area of the picture you wish to see translated. Pressing "3" on the keyboard brought up the "Core" of the sun on the illustration to the near left. Pressing "b" on the keyboard with the cyclist entry selected will return "Fork" and its corresponding translation. Then, if you wish to hear the translation spoken, simply press the corresponding speaker key on the keyboard for each language.
Travel Guide
Read through the Travel Guide to see "point of interest" information for 10 global cities. You can find things to do and places to eat while you're visiting one of these cities.
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Customer Reviews
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.
It doesn't translate sentences or phrases which is my biggest disapointment
It contains a very poor lexicon and is best suited for speech like "foot-bad-food..."
type in sex you get gender,safe sex, do you have a single sex dorms. I'm not looking for exotic and obscure orgy terms but i think this stuff was prepared by unambitious nuns.
the touch-screen like buttons on the side of the screen are a pain because you trigger them when holding the device.
Trying to communicate by searching through the preloaded phrases seems rather useless for me since it would take a long time to find anything usefull in the event you are stuck in a bear trap or something pressing. If you like to browse though discosnnected phrases llke the "elephant is fat" and "this plane has three doors" then you will be okay. Me, i kinda regret this purchase. Oh i should say that i do like the audio for the correct pronunciation of words. The visual dictionary part looks good in theory but it is very limited and i have not found a use other than a placebo for TV.
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.
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