Jourist Illustrated Phrasebook: The iPhone as an Interpreter

HAMBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jourist Verlag in Hamburg now offers travellers an illustrated phrasebook which can be used with their iPhone and iPod touch. The phrasebook turns both Apple devices into an interpreter which users can use abroad to communicate with the locals without needing any language skills at all. The software is available for 21 languages ranging from Japanese and English to German and Russian.

The illustrated phrasebook can be downloaded from the Apple Store for Yen 1,200 per language.

More than 2,100 useful phrases are clearly structured according to topic, offering a wide variety of possible options. Users select a sentence in Japanese which is then read in fantastic sound quality by a native speaker. In addition to the audio playback, the phrasebook provides an illustration for each phrase to visualise its content.

This phrasebook is therefore also ideal for learning a language and can be used effectively at home.

The software contains translations from Japanese into 20 target languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Korean). Each of these languages can also be selected as a source language. By default the phrasebook selects the source language selected as the user's language on the iPhone or the iPod. The illustrated phrasebook covers all topics which business travellers and holidaymakers need, such as customs, hotels, service, travelling, car repairs, sightseeing, entertainment, eating and drinking, sport and recreation.

Preparation of a conversation in the target language, for example with a new acquaintance, is very simple – the individually selected phrases can be put together to create a new topic. All users have to do is select the necessary phrases from the various topics and assign them to the new topic.

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Further information on international prices as well as screenshots and audio clips can be downloaded from www.jourist.de/presse/

About Jourist Verlags GmbH:

Jourist Verlags GmbH was founded in 1996. The company has already been a successful supplier of language software for 12 years and focuses on the publication of innovative phrasebooks, language courses and dictionaries. In supplying new software solutions the company reacts flexibly to the requirements of the constantly expanding market, and is now one of the leading publishing houses in the field of language software. Jourist Verlags GmbH currently offers 300 titles for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Russian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Estonian, Tagalog, Malaysian and Afrikaans.

Jourist Verlag offers solutions for Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac and Linux. In keeping with the latest trend of producing navigation equipment with language-related applications, Jourist Verlag also offers solutions to manufacturers of such devices.