ECTACO Partner ES800 - English &lt;-&gt; Spanish Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook
Saves the day
Its not perfect -but effective. The best feature is sentence translation--it even speaks it out (electronic)--but only a native will understand. The grammer is off sometimes--so are some words. But dual use words and phrases should be avoided. <br />The product seems robust and is great for English to Spanish. Watch out for features on other language, only Russian and Polish with sentence key in translation out. Asian languages probably need other machine. But for us in the US--we need English to Spanish- use with 80% confidence. Learn some basic Spanish grammer rules, phrases, verbs and nouns--you can then correct the ES800s pecularities yourself until we get a Star Trek caliber translator. Its a keeper for frequent users.