Lingo Global 8 Translator (TR-800A)

I initially purchased this because I wanted a translator that was small and compact that could provide me with sufficient English-French and French-English translations. This translator is small and it is easy to carry around, but that's where the Pros stop. The translator simply does not contain enough words to be useful. I have been living in France for a month and I have tried to use the translator on several occasions, without luck. There have been many instances in which I've been in a store or in the Metro and I needed to translate words; I was not able to do this because of the translator's limited vocabulary. It has gotten to the point where, if I come across a word I don't know, I don't even bother to use the translator.Instead of this translator, I would highly recommend just buying a translation book. The book may be a bit bigger that the digital translator, but at least the book would contain enough words to be useful - and it would provide pronunciations, etc.

I communicate with people from several countries and find that on occasion I fail to remember a word. It is simple to find it on Lingo Global Eight. Even with 64,000 it does not always have the word you want.It is very inexpensive for the job it does.Morrie Trimmer

I haven't used it while traveling yet. I am only interested in Spanish. I have a copy of "The Cat In The Hat" in Spanish. As a test I tried to translate it into English. If I didn't already know some Spanish it wouldn't have done me much good. It doesn't seem to do well with verbs and idioms.It was not expensive so I guess I got my money's worth.

We initially purchased this as a low price translator for a son's trip to Korea. He ended up borrowing a friend's, so we returned it. Our impressions were that it was ok for the price and for our son, since he is a techie. Some of the reviews we read said that it was overly complicated and not accurate. We found that you have to pay a lot more to increase the accuracy. So this would have been ok for waht we were willing to pay.

WE BOUGHT THIS TRANSLATOR FOR A TRIP TO MEXICO TO HELP WITH SOME OF THE WORDS AND PHRASES THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL SPANISH. IT WAS EASY TO USE AND ALSO HAD A MONEY CONVERSION CALCULATOR WHICH WAS HANDY. FOR THE MONEY THIS WAS A VERY GOOD BUY AND I WOULD RECOMMEND IT FOR PEOPLE WITH SOME SPANISH BACKGROUND. THE PRODUCT IS WELL BUILT, HAVING A METAL CASE, NOT PLASTIC AND NICE FEATURES. IT IS WELL WORTH THE COST. AND, OF COARSE, AMAZON SHIPPING IS ALWAYS GREAT.

It's even not turn on!!!I returned it

First of all, I think I have gotten a lot for my money. I have purchased this for an upcoming trip to Germany, Rome, and Austria. So far, just playing around with it, I think it will work out fine for my needs. I am going to have friends in Germany acting as tour guides, so will not need to heavily rely on the Language Translator, but will be nice to have when on my own. Fairly easy to use with a printed key guide on the inside cover. There are pre-programmed phrases that are categorized and very easy to convert to any of the 8 languages available on the translator. There is also a data bank for storing any additional phrases you may need, which is handy. Although I have not yet used it in another country, I believe it will be a handy gaget to have.

Very inexpensive but very limited and hard to use. I returned it and purchased a quality voice translater.