Talking Translator

If you like bringing your kids to different countries for vacation, the Talking 30 Language Translator might prove handy. It articulates over 69,000 phrases and 600,000 words across 27 European languages and three Asian languages. At the touch of a button, you can access translations for pre-programmed words or common travel phrases to and from English (uses the New Oxford American English Dictionary). European languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are also included. About the size of a PDA, the translator has a backlit LCD that shows the word or phrase, pronunciation, and script for non-Latin alphabets, then speaks the word or phrase in your language of choice. It also converts eight currencies and calculates between metric and Imperial measurements. Aside from that it provides local and world time.