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Summary: WORTH EVERY PENNY.
Review: My daughter's Communications II teacher recommended that the kids invest in a electronic dictionary. After much research we decided to invest in the Franklin Speaking 11th Collegiate Dictionary.
We were really concerned with the price but decided to go for it. My daughter is in 8th grade and is presently taking two high school classes. She has told my a couple times how much of a life saver this dictionary has been for her. She really doesn't even need me to review spelling words because you can enter in the words and it will repeat the word and you type in the correct spelling. It has a multitide of scientific informational facts also hat she is totally impressed with daily. It's well worth it if you look at the fact it is definatly a good educational tool
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Summary: Caution for children
Review: My sister bought this for my 11 year old child. She easily figured out how to use the dictionary and most of the games. See especially love the hangman feature. Unfortunately the machine does not filter the words it uses for the games, as one of the words was [...]. Otherwise the device works well, the enunciation is good and my daughter loves it. But beware of the unedited vocabulary for children.
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Summary: Masterpiece of Technology
Review: The American Heritage Dictionary, 11 1/4" X 8 1/4" X 2 1/2", weighing 8 pounds, is available now in a hand held jewell that you can carry in your shirt pocket. It speaks the word and pronounces it perfectly. It is the best vocabulary builder. My only complaint is that it does not have esp.
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Summary: Great Job!
Review: This is a great translator, have a lot of options and the pronunciation is so clear. The only problem, I think is speed! It's pretty slow specially when you use the "Back" bottom.
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Summary: hard to read
Review: This little dictionary is very convenient to use, but the display is hard to read. It has black lettering on a dark gray background and there's also usually some glare on the screen from the reading light source. My grandson's Gameboy SP has a much better way of displaying content for about the same price. Franklin should adopt it. No way would I ever try to read a book on this thing (I'd go blind), so forget the book card reader function. The pronunciation feature is nice, except that the electronic pronouncer sounds muffled, as though the speaker had marbles in her mouth. Think Sean Connery or Michael Mc Donald. Sometimes certain consonants are mispronounced. The games were wasted on me and the calculator is too awkward to bother with. I have no need for a clock, currency converter, etc. I wear a watch and hang out mostly where dollars are accepted. I'd rather have common latin and french phrases translated than have all these useless gadgets. Franklin would have done better to focus strictly on convenience for the kind of reader that uses a dictionary. Kids who use dictionaries will use their Gameboys for games. The letters of the keyboard could have been spaced a bit further apart for easier use and avoidance of errors. I have the feeling it was designed for fingers about half the size of mine and I'm a small female. (I also would have preferred the Dvorak keyboard, but I understand that very few people would find that appealing.)I'm glad I have this, even though it is hard to read (my main criticism), but I think I paid too much (I paid $99, felt sort of cheated when it went on sale for $89 so soon after my purchase, and truly feel it's worth more like $50). Had I known how hard to read it is I'd have still bought it if it had cost less. Still, it's very nice not to have to search through a heavy, thick dictionary. When I'm reading away from home this is very, very convenient. Okay, maybe it's worth $60. I gave it 3 stars, but 3 1/2 would be more accurate. The 5 star ratings threw me off and left me disappointed after my own experience of this dictionary.
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Summary: The only complete dictionary
Review: When you need to use a dictionary it's usually because the word you want to look up is unusual or obscure. Most electronic dictionaries contain 100,000 or so of the most commonly used words, which is almost useless. It must contain the uncommon words to be worth anything. This model is the best, and worth the higher cost. It contains words that aren't even in my large hard-bound dictionary.
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