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There are voice or verbal translator/translation devices available. Amazon's best seller was about $130.

Never used it, but there are apps for phones that translate. They look easy when shown being used on TV

The academic version is usually Castilian or 'Spanish Spanish' which is as useful as Parisian French in Quebec.

Google Play has voice translate apps for Android phones. I have not used any of them. You can figure them out:

This Microsoft Translator for Android phones has raving reviews and 4.7 stars:

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I have just downloaded it onto my phone and tried it.

When it started, it presented me with a choice of a few modes. I chose the microphone icon. It defaults to "English -> Spanish". I said "Hello" to my phone. My phone spoke Spanish immediately through the speaker (I assume it was saying "Hello" in Spanish).

Hopefully the Spanlish they produce isn't too embarrassing.

Thanks for this. I'll give it a shot.

My niece speaks excellent Castilian spanish and has no problem communicating with north, central and south americans.

After playing around with the app on my phone, I found out that after you press the mic icon to start the app, you can further choose "AUTO" and it will voice-translate both ways automatically.

I tried google translate and printing it out to show the guys in a Mexican Supermarket that had wonderful produce. They could not figure it out.

Illiterate people cannot read. Do you know that?

They were not illiterate. We got a hold of a bilingual person who laughed at the translation. Then she told the guys what I really wanted (dried Chimayo peppers).

I adored that store. Such very nice folks worked there. Unfortunately, the store got bought up by another store that closed and combined the two stores. I have not been back since.

That is true about accents. When a US friend of mine worked a few years in a plant in the Netherlands he said he got along a lot better when he visited France when he said, Je suis un Américain. Apparently they like us better than the English we could be mistaken for.

They probably won't be interested in talking to you, anyway. They're almost certainly illegals, and will prefer to associate with other espanols...

We sold some software to Puerto Rico and used Google translate for the labeling. They are probably still laughing at the gringos.*

• I think 'gringo' is Mexican slang, not Puerto Rican.

Many years earlier the company I was working for sold hydraulic units to the USSR and my wife offered to translate the various labels and information plates. Another disaster. She did not speak Machine Shop Russian.

Then she is better than the Columbian woman we had working for us. She sat in on a meeting with some Puerto Ricans to translate and lost the thread when it got hot and heavy. The best she could do was to say they were really pissed at each other.

Means "green pants". It refers to our soldiers uniform pants.

If they move here, they need to learn to speak our language, not be catered to. That's what my great-grandparents did when they arrived at Ellis Island at the end of the 19th century.

We have a flag, we have a language, we have a culture. Fall in...or get out.