Lik-Sang is running a feature on the PSP Talkman, which is a "Universal Translator" of sorts. Described as a voice-activated translation software application, it can translate between English Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
I predict that it's somewhat frustrating to use but not as frustrating as being completely up the creek when it comes to communications in a foreign country... unless I'm mis-judging how far voice recognition software has come since I last fooled with trying to get a computer to understand what I was saying.
The Talkman will also make an attempt to teach you language with a game mode. I find that somewhat enticing. Any serious attempt at learning language as an adult, from what I hear, is best with the "Pimsleur series.
Of course, considering the Pimsleur stuff is often as expensive as a PSP with this software included, that'll be a tough call when I'm finally traveling to Korea.
I hope that's not unintentionally rude...
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