Franklin TES-118 English/Spanish Translator

This product is fun to use and increases my confidence in speaking and writing Spanish. I recommend it to everyone who wishes to improve their communication skills. I especially value the sleek design, compact size, and portability of the product.

well it does what it says but not very intutive, given the fact that now smart phones do so much and beyond. I wanted this for my cuba trip since there is no internet connectivity there, however, i used to fumble - it takes getting used to, and so i switched to old fashioned print outs of most commonly used tourist phrases and questions

As a beginning Spanish student, I bought this little gadget because it boasted having a wealth of vocabulary and phrases.I am disappointed with this product in several ways. First,the size and design: it's very small which is fine, but the designers did two bad things, it's very hard to see the displayin any lighting, and the button(s) you need to use the most areso small it's ridiculous. Second: The phrases are all preset, into categories. Forget about entering a phrase of your own. Many of the preset phrases are ridiculous, for instance, What isyour e-mail address? Why would a non-spanish speaking personneed that??? If you want to know where you can find a chineserestaurant, you will need to look up each word individually, and then find out that "chinese" isn't in the database. So, have apencil and paper ready to construct your own clumsy sentences.I gave it one star because it's better than having nothing. Ifyou were going to dash to Mexico for the weekend, this would getyou through. It's not user intuitive so expect to have to readthe booklet to find out how to capitalize a letter, as well asusing any/all of the functions. It's complicated, it's limited,it's difficult to navigate. On the upside - you'll know whattime it is! There's a name & phone number database - it wouldbe a lot nicer to just be able to take a note - like what streetyour hotel is on - or write down frequently used expressions ofyour own instead of having to look up "What is the specialtoday?" every night at dinner. But, if your wife is pregnant,goes into labor and you're panicking - this little gizmo willcome to your rescue. It's got that covered. A pocket dictionarywould be faster and more helpful.

It was easy to understand the instructions, and I did use it a bit on my trip (back to my old Peace Corps site where I wasn't sure how my Spanish would be after 3 years away - as long as I was there), but the amount of vocab I found lacking. It said words didn't exist or tried correcting them. I was hoping for more.I like the thermometer converter though!Great size, easy to carry. Reliable battery, and I wasn't worried about it breaking (like a previous one I had). I wouldn't buy it again for my purposes, but it might work just fine for someone else.

It has a lot of words and the size is good.

I have had three Franklin pocket translators in the past 15 years. This is the worst. Some common words in both English and Spanish are not recognized by this unit. The screen is smaller that the first two so that I have to cycle through vertically or horizontally to view a complete verb form or definition. The only positive is that it contains nouns. The first two showed almost exclusively verbs. I should have bought the next unit up.

got this for my grand daughter. It has been so helpful with her studies. She is actually learning a lot

Very small. Works fine, but too small for most uses. Might not be the most quality built, but will be sending back cause not what was expected. Franklin makes better ones.