Hi, my wife and I are going to Brazil with our Church for a couple of weeks in July and want to have some sort of translator to quickly and easily voice translate to and from English/Portuguese.
We will be interacting with people both in and out of the churches there and we would rather not take our phones at all if we can help it. We would however consider taking them it if a decent and easy to use app could be bought for them that doesn't rely on data/internet connectivity as we're not sure how good it will be where we're going.
I have seen a few specific translator devices but they are all fairly expensive and to be honest we may never use it again or at least not much.
Can anyone recommend a decent app (preferably Android) or cheap device that doesn't need connectivity to work, even if it only does the one language i.e. Portuguese?
Also any suggestions for decent and straightforward/basic apps or resources to learn a few key phrases and words?
I'm singing in a Christian festival (Corn Festival) whilst I'm over there and it would be nice to say a few words as a mark of respect to the people.
I appreciate it's a bit of a random request but there seems to be a wide range of well travelled and intelligent people on here so it's worth asking?
Thanks
Neil.