There is nothing worse than being abroad, possibly in Europe and your language skills are not totally up to scratch, the alternative was to carry a phrase book around with you, but by doing that you may as well just hang a sign over your head to let all the pick pockets and thieves around that you are a “Tourist” which is one thing you not ever want to do. Thankfully there are other alternatives and the solution may be a lot easier than you initially think.

Publishing house McGraw-Hills have come up a great new idea developed from the work of Alex Chapin who is an educational technologist at Middlebury College specializing in developing technologies for second-language acquisition. The system allows you to download to your iPod 1,500 top phrases in the language of your choice, either French, German, Italian or Spanish, al you to do is select the language that you want and that is it, simple!

The great thing about doing it this way is the fact that you are able to listen to the language while you are traveling, instead of just listening to music, which will get you used to the look of the phases and you are able to play them back as often as you need without the fear of anyone over hearing because they are displayed on the screen of the iPod as well as being sent through the ear phones, not only to you get to see the words you also get to hear them too, this is good stuff really.

Source  [Geek Sugar]

Product Page  [McGraw-Hill's iSpeak]