Franklin TGA-470 12 Language Translator

by Franklin Electronics

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 3 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000I035LS
• Item model number: TGA-470
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #100 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Foreign Language Translators
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the manufacturer

Feel like a member of the United Nations with translations in 12 languages!

The Ultimate Communication Device! The TGA-470 12 Language Interpreter amazingly translates over 350,000 words and 12,000 travel phrases in 12 languages! Franklin's famous phonetic spell correction allows you to enter words by how they sound. Great travel tools include: Local/World Clock, Currency/Metric Converter, and Databank that stores and instantly retrieves important names and numbers.

Features:

• 12 languages: Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese plus French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Portuguese and English
• Large display features Roman letters and Asian characters
• Over 350,000 words and 12,000 phrases
• Databank to store 100 entries with password protection
• Calculator
• Currency Converter
• Metric Converter
• Local/World Clock

Product Description

Franklin Electronic Publishers 12 Language Translator

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Language translator, January 19, 2007

By 

Lamar S. Osment (Birmingham,AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin TGA-470 12 Language Translator (Office Product)

Most hand held languge translators provide an insuffcient vocabulary.
This device is no exception. It is only a very slight step above the
less expensive TWE-100 by Franklin. It does offer seven additional languages and all have skimpy vocabularies.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Franklin TGA-470 works great, June 15, 2008

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Michael Shaw "Gadget Guy" (Ottawa Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin TGA-470 12 Language Translator (Office Product)

We used it in China and Japan on recent trips and while it does not speak it worked just great.

Most words and phrases we needed were in the thing and moderately easy to find. The key is to search for one word of a phrase.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Looks like a little book, October 18, 2008

By 

Max Osterhaus (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin TGA-470 12 Language Translator (Office Product)

So far is seems pretty good. Easy to use, many features and many languages. I bought it particularly because it had Japanese, Korean, and German, but it has many more. Like all of these things the vocab is small and that is annoying, but for basic use it does the trick.

ohh yeah, and it looks like a little book! (this gained it 1/2 star, otherwise it might have been a three for lack of vocabulary)