Franklin TG-450 12 Language Translator

I bought the Franklin TG-450 12 Language Translator for my wife. She is taking spanish classes and didn't want to carry a dictionary in her purse. Once we got the package in the mail, we quickly realized that the language translator was of little use. It doesn't conjugate words since it only gives you the orignal stem. Moreover, its lack of vocabulary is unimpressive. We had to refer to the dictionary 9 out of 10 times when looking for a word. It now collects dust on our book shelf. If you are serious about learning a language, either buy a more expensive translator or a pocket dictionary.

We needed to have a basic translator and we found this one at Amazon. I tried searching for other translators in other places, but the prices go up a lot and the number of words for each language stays relatively the same. This one has a fair amount of words for the price. But don't expect to find any advanced level words (although some of the words missing I might also consider basic... it seems a little random). But it will work for beginners. Amazon was also awesome as we had some problems in our building to receive it (they returned the package) and Amazon sent me another one very quickly.

Horrible!!!
It does not help too much, not user friendly...I feel like I wasted my money

As this item is being given as gift to someone in Poland in August,I will not be able to review it until I receive some feedback from them.

This is a handy item when traveling in Europe and the Americas. It even has language help for most of Eastern Europe.

It was challenging to enter the Cyrillic characters when visiting Russia, but it did the job. A pocket translator is no substitute for familiarity with a language, but it beats carrying several language dictionaries with you.

It would be nice to know how much battery life was left.