Franklin Spanish - English / Merriam - Webster Dictionary with Access to 5 000 000 Total Translations & Over 274 000 Definitions for Quick English Language Reference

by Franklin Electronics

Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B002ECYC2E
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #63 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Foreign Language Translators
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 23, 2009

Product Description

Stop stumbling in Spanglish - a Spanish-English Dictionary is the key to success!

Master the languages. With a whopping five million total English-Spanish translations, this electronic dictionary from Franklin provides the help you need to express yourself in either language. Definitions, conjugations of English and Spanish verbs in all tenses, plus 4000 Spanish and English example sentences provide the tools to communicate. Built-in phonetic spelling correction lets you easily translate the words you hear in conversation.

Five million English-Spanish translations with definitions in both languages
Conjugations of English and Spanish verbs in all tenses
4000 Example Sentences in Spanish and English
2000 Phrases in Spanish and English
Phonetic Spell Correction
Spanish Grammar Rule Guide
Five language-building Exercises , Including Spelling Bee & Flashcards
Clock - (Home & World)
Spell Check
Data Bank
Calculator
Metric Conversion
Currency Conversion
Password Protection
Protective Lid
Crossword Puzzle Solver
SAT Spanish Word List
7 Fun Games include : Hangman - Conjumania - Gender Tutor - Word Train - Guess the Word - Word Auction & Word Blaster

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4.0 out of 5 stars Surprise: this is the DBE-1490, new, reasonable and highly functional!, April 30, 2011

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J. Rockafellow "busyjr" (DOBBS FERRY, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin Spanish - English / Merriam - Webster Dictionary with Access to 5 000 000 Total Translations & Over 274 000 Definitions for Quick English Language Reference (Electronics)

April 2011. I gambled a bit when I ordered this English-Spanish translator from TripleNet Pricing, because it did not have a model number and only weighed a suspicious 0.3 ounces. However, the listing did state that it had 5,000,000 translations, 274,000 definitions, etc., and otherwise the image looked remarkably identical to the DBE-1490, the predecessor to the DBE-1500.

I've been carrying a Franklin TES-121 around with me every day for 11 months now and was really happy with it, because it was such a good value, so useful, and still has so much more information in it than I have been able to use (see my review of the TES-121). I particularly like the fact that it has the English and Spanish together, side-by-side translations of the different conjugations of the verbs, a feature even most Span-Eng verb books do not have. However, I was occasionally miffed when it came to certain irregular verbs, which translated the verb, but did not set out all the conjugations. Anyhow, that led me to start reading about the DBE-1490 and DBE-1500. I assumed, correctly as it turns out upon opening my new DBE-1490 just now, that these models also had the side-by-side verb conjugations, but just a whole lot more complete. Well, that's the case. The listed item IS A NEW DBE-1490, and it includes the side-by-side translations of the irregular verb conjugations that the TES-121 did not have!

Plus, this product was delivered within 3 days of my order. I'm thrilled!

Oct. 18, 2011 Update: Replaced the two 2032 watch batteries after about 5 months of daily multiple uses. Not bad. However, ONE PROBLEM AREA IS SLOW SPEED: the DBE-1490 takes a painstakingly long time (in terms of typical electronics speeds) to get to certain side-by-side verb conjugations. E.g., while the present and past tense can be got to within a few seconds, it takes 39 seconds to get to the IMPERATIVE, after one has first sequentially clicked through OVERVIEW, PRESENT INDICATIVE, PRESENT PROGRESSIVE, PRETERIT, PAST PROGRESSIVE and seven more tenses. I.e., there's no short cut to the IMPERATIVE, but first you have to click through 11 or 12 prior tenses at about 3 seconds each! Yet I still give this translator a high recommendation for its overall usefulness, as per the above.