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Franklin Electronics TGA-490 - Speaking Global Translator

by Darren

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Let’s say you’re serious about travelling the world. You travel from culture to culture, and you don’t have the time to learn 12 different languages! It’s understandable, not many of us do. Well, with the Franklin Electronics TGA-490 you’ll be able to handle some heavy-duty translation duties.

Whether you’re traveling for business or fun, don’t get caught without a full range of helpful travel solutions at your fingertips. Features over 450,000 words and 12,000 phrases in 12 different languages. Hear over 115,000 words and 12,000 phrases pronounced in recorded human speech.

Our automatic spell correction feature for European languages lets you type words as they sound and get alternatives to misspelled words. Also, when you look up words in Chinese,, Japanese or Korean, you’ll see them displayed phonetically in the Roman alphabet and in Asian character.

The price is a surprisingly low $229.99, considering the impressive array of features. For anyone who is out there every day in remote parts of the world (or even some not so remote ones) this just might be the answer.

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