Franklin TG112 Next Century 20 Language Translator

I use this to help some of my EAL pupils and it works a treat as it much more discrete than a giant paper dictionary on the table.

Bought this Franklin TG112 device primarily to translate English/Danish - Danish/English whilst learning the Danish language, was not expecting too much from it as the price was a very reasonably £10 delivered. Researched around for an electronic language translator that covers English/Danish - Danish/English and found them to be few and far between. Danish is not one of the typical common languages like French, German, Italian, Spanish etc. Electronic translators that have Danish translation ability tend to be very hard to find, poorly supported, or just plain very expensive. Free Android translators, mmmm, yeah right, lots of work still needed before they become close to "nearly useful".Had this thing for a few days and attempted to translate a random couple of dozen or more pretty common words from English to Danish and or, Danish to English, during this time I think it hit about one or two results with the remainder being changed [because my chosen word was unavailable] for the next available word up or down the Franklin database word list.The seller was very helpful in the return of this device and it's subsequent refund. From my short use, I found this device be pretty close to useless and would be very hesitant at buying a replacement, higher priced alternative, unless I could actually use it for a short time before purchase. On this occasion the refunded money was better spent on a hard copy book - Danish-English, English-Danish (Routledge Bilingual Dictionary). Vastly superior in content and translation, but not as portable as this little device due to obvious weight and size - pros and cons - book wins hands down.

Didnt find it easy to use , waste of time and money it will forever sit in its box .

Still trying to work it out, need more time.

I was looking for an easy to use translator for the Russian language but it had to describe the words using English letters. I was disapointed to find that the Russian was in the Russian alphabet, which meant that the product was no good for my particular purpose. The actual operations of the translator are difficult to understand if like me you are a technophobe, but I suppose if you are into these types of gadgets, then they will be easy to understand. For me it would have been useful to know if the Russian words had been included with English phonetics, if it had told me this information then I would not have purchased the translator. The good news is that despite being a technophobe, I am using the translator so it cannot be that bad, maybe it's just my age. The qwerty keypad is well spaced out for the chubbier fingers and the style of the casing is quite attractive, for a bloke. All in all I am happy with this purchase, now then how do you use... sorry I've got to go and work this function out!

THIS WILL BE VERY USEFULL TO COMUNICATE WITH OUR GERMAN AND SPANISH FREINDS WHEN IM ON HOLIDAY,BETTER THAN READING PHRASES FROM A BOOK.GOOD VALUE.

good

We needed it for translations between Danish and English, and it could not translate even the most ordinary words. Moreover, it was not intuitively easy to use. Thus, we don't use it at all.