Geeky Traveller

Lingo Voyager 5 Will Do the Talking For You

by Sherry on March 24th, 2008

When I went to Mexico, one of my favorite days was when I left behind all the tourist markets and headed to the market area where locals shopped. I had flown four and a half hours to be in another country and I was tired of hearing English and French - I wanted to go somewhere that would allow me to be completely surrounded by people speaking Spanish. When I was getting the directions from one of the hotel staff, she warned me that it was likely I wouldn’t find a single person who would be able to speak English beyond a “hi” if I had trouble with the language, but that was exactly what I wanted.

I did pretty well, having taken a bit of Spanish. I also brought a little travel phrase book for some of the times I needed help. However, it would also be great to leave the book behind and bring along the Lingo Voyager 5 Talking 20-Language Translator. For $249 you get 46,000 common phrases that can be translated into 20 different languages.

Available languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish and Turkish. That covers a lot of destinations!

It also includes a nifty world time clock and currency converter. When you use it, you can either use the included earphones to hear the translated phrase to give it a try yourself or you can just let the translator say it for you if it’s a little beyond your pronunciation.

It sounds pretty fun to me!

(Source // Product photo from X-Treme Geek)

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