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Travel Well Equipped with a Franklin Translator

Nothing ruins a nice European vacation faster than accidentally insulting your waiter’s daughter when you’re trying to just order the duck. How were you supposed to know that word meant something so horrifying in local slang? You, with your standard issue American monolingualism, don’t speak the native language. What’re you supposed to do?

Well, you could travel equipped with the tools to keep you from putting your foot in your mouth. Carry around a Franklin TG-450 European Language Translator and you’ll always know what to say. It’ll translate English into 12 different languages for you, and vice versa. This’ll allow you to handle your transactions with ease in the native tongue rather than your previous pointing and gesturing method, which is seriously awkward.

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Published by Adam on April 23rd, 2008 and listed in Travel.

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TEM HORWITZ 09/12/2008 08:23 AM 1 point
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LISTED AS $29.99 IN NYT
I WANT TO BUY TWO OF THEM.
PRICE KEEPS COMING UP AS $34.99
THANKS
TEMHO

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Atane 09/12/2008 10:12 AM 1 point
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As of today it is $29.99, but i'm not sure how much longer this price is going to last.

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Abroad Reviewer 11/05/2008 03:56 AM 1 point
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This’ll allow you to handle your transactions
with ease in the native tongue rather than your
previous pointing and gesturing method

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B&B Blackpool 05/02/2009 05:22 PM 1 point
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Handy little gadget but how much use will people put it to? I am old enough to remember the days before PC's. Electronic diary's and address books were all the rage at one time but were quite cumbersome in entering data.
It was time consuming for little reward.
I feel the pointing and gesturing will soon prevail if people come to see this as a similar gadget.

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p0ps 05/02/2009 05:37 PM 1 point
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I'd agree. But, I did see one of these used fairly successfully by a French Chef in a kitchen full of Spanish speakers. He was the boss, so he could point if he wanted, but because he tried to use the device, he got a lot of laughs and cooperation out of the workers. They were taking it from him to go from Spanish to French. Everybody had a good time.

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