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Title: hand held translators Post by: jrm on March 30, 2004, 05:00:00 AM Anyone have any experience with hand held translators?
Title: Partner ER200DM Post by: TwoBitBandit on March 30, 2004, 05:00:00 AM ... in response to hand held translators, posted by jrm on Mar 30, 2004
I bought the Partner ER200DM for about $100. It's faster than using the dictionary if you want to find something quickly. I think that's about the best thing that can be said about it. It's missing a lot of important words. A few of the translations it comes up with are sometimes off-the-wall. I've showed some of them that didn't seem to make sense to my Russian teacher, and she said they were just flat-out wrong. It doesn't scan the keyboard very fast...if you type quickly it drops characters. You have to type slowly. If I had known then what I know about it now, I would have spent $200-$300 and bought a better one. Title: Re: hand held translators Post by: MarkInTx on March 30, 2004, 05:00:00 AM ... in response to hand held translators, posted by jrm on Mar 30, 2004
The one I bought (Franklin) was cheap. It was also valuable, but I would not say "invaluable". Meaning that it helped a little, especially at restaurants, but it is amazing how many words are simply not in it. I wouldn't have wanted to rely soley on it to get around with, that's for sure. But the one time that I needed to find a men's room in a department store, it was sure handy! I bought mine at Fry's, and I can't remember how much it was now, but I think it was about $50. |