Breaking The Language Barrier

June, 1979

Kiss your foreign-language dictionary with the useless phrases goodbye. Hand-held electronic translators with vocabularies of about 1500 words and the capability to handle any language from French to Chinese or even Arabic are proving to be the biggest boon to international travelers since the invention of the drip-dry suit. To translate an English word to another language, or vice versa, all you do is spell it out on the keyboard and the equivalent word in the language selected appears on the d...