Franklin BES-2100

Disappointed

A friend and I purchased this product model BES-2100 within minutes of each other. She received a different model - her unit holds up to 100- words in the vocabulary list, whereas my unit holds only 40 wordsl. Upon checking the back of the unit on...

Full Featured But The Speaking Voice Has Marbles In Her Mouth

I purchased this unit primarily because of its advertised ability to pronounce Spanish words. Maybe there is something wrong with the unit I received but I cannot understand the lady who does the talking - even using the earbuds she is unintelligible...

Perfect for me

I had been concerned by some of the reviews of these devices that it would be impossible to read without a backlight. I have not had any problems. Yes, if using at night you do need a lamp, as you would with a regular dictionary. But I've been...

Franklin Speaking Spanish - English Dictionary

Great product. I would absolutely love it if the speaking part of the device spoke slower for better understanding and learning.

My Wife Loves It

I purchased this for my wife, who needed it primarily for an aid in her intermediate Spanish classes. A such, she needed conjugations and grammar in addition to dictionary functionality. She loves the device, so I have rated it 5 stars. I found the...

I'm very satisfied with Speaking Spanish - English Dictionary

This a very good portable translation, I'm very satisfied with it. The only do I have to do, it's put more information by the USB connector from my computer. The Speaker sounds good, and you can put the translation in your pocket, and take it,...

So many features!

While this probably won't teach you to speak Spanish, it can be a useful tool for studying or looking up a word or phrase. I was surprised at the amount of information, exercises and games this little gadget contains. And it's handy for so many other...

Very Fun and Useful

The day this product arrived, I grabbed the box and headed over my extended family's house for dinner. As soon as I opened the packaging to this product my mother gasped and stole it. (She is obsessed with learning new languages... but not a lot of...

The Latest in Spanish-English Dictionary

I have had the older version for many years. This one does it all. It is much smaller. It has an automatic currency converter, a time zone converter, a calculator, a metric converter, and much more. I like it a lot. However, I must say that my...

Very useful tool but.....

Very useful tool but my old huge paper based dictionary has more vocabulary than this device. Unfortunately my dictionary is not portable, but this device is still good and very useful on the go.