Turn Your iPod into a Translation Tool

June 6, 2007 -- The iSpeak Spanish phrasebook (as well as additional programs offered in French, German, and Italian) turns any of the nearly 40 million iPod and MP3 players on the market into Spanish language translation tools for on-the-spot reference. The iPod’s intuitive, effective navigational interface allows you to quickly find those words and phrases most useful to you in a given context.

Downloading iSpeak Spanish CDs into your iPod will give you access to nearly 1,500 audio tracks, organized into various categories that allow you to communicate in all typical travel situations, such as finding accomodations, eating out, or expressing your perceptions and opinions. You’ll be able to both see and hear hundreds of key words and phrases, which you can use as excellent study tools to prep for an upcoming trip or as worthwhile language reference while you’re on the go.

Christopher Brown, Publisher for Language and Reference at McGraw-Hill Professional, said, “I am extremely excited by the new iSpeak audio phrasebook series. This very much represents the present and future way for meeting the language needs of travelers. iSpeak provides almost instant navigation, just three clicks to the required phrase. It is “weightless,” contained within a compact device (iPod or MP3 player) that today’s travelers are already carrying with them, and it overcomes the perennial problem for phrasebooks – how to provide language novices with effective pronunciation guidance – by providing on-the-spot audio phrases to listen to and simply repeat.”

Once your iSpeak Spanish audio files have been loaded onto your iPod or other MP3 player, you can locate them in the same way you locate music files or other audiobooks, by browsing Artists or Genres. The program is designed so that an English phrase is followed by the Spanish translation.

If you need a phrase or word, the answers are literally at your fingertips instantly for easy reference. For example, if you need to find an ATM machine in Mexico City, you would scroll to the Bank album in Service & Shopping where you would find the phrase, “Where is there an ATM near here?”

Going to the Prado? Review the Museums & Galleries album in Entertainment, as well as perhaps words and phrases in the Train & Metro album.

iSpeak contents cover all aspects of travel and life, from “Conversation” (which includes subcategories including “Introductions,” “Feelings,” and “Weather”), to “Entertainment,” “Food,” and “Reference.”

Included in the program is a 64-page paperback booklet that provides you with a written run-down of categories and sub-categories, and Spanish translations for all phrases and key words.

iSpeak features:

• The only language reference to fully exploit the audio, visual, and navigational features of the iPod
• Compatibility with every iPod with a screen on the market
  
• Author Alex Chapin is a celebrated innovator of digital language-learning systems

Upcoming programs to be released this summer will include Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese.

iSpeak Spanish $12.95 ISBN 0-07-148607-0

Also available in the following languages:

iSpeak Italian ISBN 0-07-148614-3
iSpeak French ISBN 0-07-148608-9
iSpeak German ISBN 0-07-148609-7

For more information visit www.mhprofessional.com

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