Global Traveler Translator for 20 LANGUAGES:English, Polish, German, Czech

by Global

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0019J4FH0
• Item model number: TR2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #28 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Foreign Language Translators
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 8, 2007

Product Description

Global Traveler 20-Language Translator - Lingo Global Traveler 20 language translator- Translates over 400,000 words- Translates over 40,000 travel phrases- Translations appear in English phonetic and foreign alphabet simultaneously- 4 Line x 14 character LCD display- 200 City world time clock with alarm- Metric/currency converter- Clothes/shoe size converter- Calculator/databank- 4 Travel games- Powered by 2 AAA batteries + 1 CR2032 lithium battery (included)- English, Polish, German, Czech, French, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Indonesian, Turkish, Thai, Russian, Vietnamese- SilverLINTR2000

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for traveling, not good for language learning., October 3, 2009

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Ellen L. Wojdyla (APO, AP Japan) - See all my reviews
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This translator will be a good help to you if you are a traveler of foreign countries. All the basic phrases for traveling are present. Ease of use is quite simple and it isn't very loud. The size is good for putting in your purse or cargo pant pocket.

This isn't such a good translator if you are trying to delve deeper into a language. I'd recommend much more advanced translators for language learning.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good unit for the price, September 4, 2009

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B. Kivi "Bruce" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this translator mainly for my travels in Asia. I had used a "Kim tu dien" for the past couple of years when traveling to Vietnam. Unfortunately it was stoeln on my last trip and I needed a replacement. The newer models of the "Kim tu dien" are quite expensive. I came arcoss this one while searching.

I am impressd with the use of tone marks in the Vietnamese translations, and also very impressed with the inclusion of both pinyin and characters in the Mandarin translations. This makes it possible for me to show the written translations and make an attempt at pronouncing it myself. I tries it with my Chinese friends at a local buffet and they could read the characters very easily. The other languages, Indonesian is useful for my purposes, Korean and Japanese may come in handy some day also. The Eurpoean languages are a plus. If I can hang onto it long enough (I seem to have a way of losing these things regularly) it will come in handy when I finally make it to Europe.

The downsides are a somewhat limited vocabulary, compared to the Kim tu Dien I was using. This has about 20,000 unique words where the Kim tu Dien had around 500,000. Not a problem really, you should be able to find some way to get your point across. The other small downside was the way the words are arranged and displayed. Perhaps I just need to learn to use it better, but on my old translator I could scroll through the words, looking until I found the correct tonal marks in Vietnamese to fit the word being presented to me. It makes the translations from the foreign language to English a little harder, especially in the Asian tonal ones. It is not a fatal flaw though, I feel I can cope.

Overall, for the price, it is an outstanding unit and well worth the money. Hopefully I can carry it with me for many years. If you want to travel widely, this
should serve you well.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good One, March 29, 2009

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Rm Kristofferson - See all my reviews
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I have needed a translator like this for several months but have found them to be too expensive for the features offered. This one does it all for me and at a killer price