We’ve written about Lastminute and Coolgorilla’s talking mobile phrase books before – they’re applications that let you choose a phrase in English, and they then ’speak’ the phrase in whatever language you’ve selected through your mobile’s speakers.
Anyway, they used to cost £3, but they’ve just been made entirely free in time for the summer holiday season. Languages covered are French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portugese and Greek, with topics including travel, accomodation, shopping and, ahem, romance.
It’s a neat idea, either to get the pronunciation clear in your own head, or just to play the phrases at someone who’s unaccountably failed to comprehend your rubbish GCSE-failing attempts at their local lingo.
(Talking Mobile Phrase Books website)
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Hi!
The link above is for the wapsite which you should use if you want to download the applications directly to your phone. You can use mobilephrasebooks.com or coolgorilla.mobi.
If you want to download that applciations onto your PC or Mac first visit http://www.coolgorilla.com
Hope this helps!
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