German Electronic Dictionary

A german electronic dictionary is a good gift for any German student or person traveling to Germany whose first language is English. Here you find - as a special service to you - short reviews on many of the options that are offered.

German/English Electronic Dictionary from Franklin Electronics

This electronic dictionary can easily be held like a book at it's one foot long length. It opens to reveal a keyboard and a clear three line text display. It is designed for beginning German speakers all the way to advanced German speakers. At just one pound, it is light to carry and very portable for travel. It also contains over 2,200 phrases that are useful for both business and leisure.

German English Audio PhraseBook electronic translator ECTACO PB-Gm B-3

This is another easily portable german electronic dictionary. The PhraseBook can be used in social and business situations in which a phrase in the foreign language is not known. A simple search for the English phrase can easily provide options of the foreign phrases. Just choose the correct English phrase and the loudspeaker on the PhraseBook will speak the German phrase aloud letting the person know what is needed or wanted.

The PhraseBook is also a calendar, phone and address book, date book, and memo book that has voice reminders of schedules and appointments. This gadget has an on screen virtual keyboard and a touch sensitive handwriting display. There is even a flash card game to learn German words.

ECTACO Partner EGm800 - English <-> German Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook

This electronic PhraseBook is not one of those that are easily portable. It weight seven (7) pounds. However, it is great for helping to learn the language. The display is not just one of the basic text displays in blacks and grays like many of the portable versions. It is a full color display. The vocabulary base is over one million words. Both German and English can be spoken with the voice technology. Translation and reverse translation work on this machine.

There's also English speech recognition so a user can speak to the PhraseBook instead of typing and a translation can be found. The voice recognition can fine tune to a user's voice making the PhraseBook able to understand the words that are said.

5 Language European Translator by Franklin Electronics

This translator has German as well as French, Italian, and Spanish. It is a simple little translator that has over 5,000 commonly used phrases sorted by category. It easily fits in a single hand. Words can be entered in any one language and the translator will provide the word in the other languages.

It also works as a rolodex, a calculator with both a metric and currency converter, and a local and world clock. It is one of the cheapest options, though it is probably not the greatest tool for beginning speakers.

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