English < > Dutch Talking Electronic Dictionary and
Audio Phrasebook
$429.95
The English/Dutch Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook is a revolutionary, expandable bilingual Dictionary and Travel Audio PhraseBook. With cool modern styling, hi-resolution color touch-display and state-of-the-art linguistic tools it is one of a kind. The massive vocabulary contains over 520,000 words and is one of the biggest around. The inclusion of the most sophisticated and accurate voice capabilities available on today’s competitive market is the defining feature of this remarkable handheld. It features both state-of-the-art English speech recognition and highly advanced English and Dutch voice synthesis powered by the latest TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology. It even goes so far as to include crystal-clear native-speaker voices for both languages in the Audio Travel PhraseBook section as recorded by professionals.Click here for more details.
The DUTCH language: Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands. Also called Netherlandish, Dutch is spoken by about 15 million inhabitants of the Netherlands and by about 300,000 people in the Western Hemisphere. The written and spoken forms of Dutch differ significantly. For example, written Dutch exhibits far greater formality than spoken Dutch in both grammar and vocabulary. The Roman alphabet is used for Dutch. Among the words with which Dutch has enriched the English vocabulary are: brandy, cole slaw, cookie, cruiser, dock, easel, freight, landscape, spook, stoop, and yacht. Dutch is noteworthy as the language of an outstanding literature, but it also became important as the tongue of an enterprising people, who, though comparatively few in number, made their mark on the world community through trade and empire.