Intercultural Communication and Translation News

A new mobile phone application has been launched by XS2TheWorld that turns phones into a multilingual holiday or business lifeline.

The application contains up to 300 phrases for each of the current seven languages supported. Not only does it display the phrases on your screen phonetically, it fluently speaks them in the local language. Whether you are looking for directions, a restaurant, a museum of even looking for love your mobile can now do the talking. “Phrase books are dead,” claims inventor Sander Munsterman.

Read more: XS2TheWorld

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