It's a Spanish Professor and it Talks.
Squeezing that poor bugger into the 6 X 4 X 1 inch box took some doing.
The original Franklin BES-1840 ( which I sold to Dale7) is a mini computer thing that you type in English and it tells you Spanish.
So far ho-hum but..it conjugates every verb form of every verb with an overview in "yo" then conjugation by conjugation. Also when you put in a Spanish word even if misspelled a bit it will offer a correction list, handy for if you "heard" it but maybe can't "spell" it.
Also again, if you put in a conjugated form of a verb, e.g. hablan, it comes up with "hablar" in Spanish so when you hear or see a verb in its conjugated form you then then get the infinitive and with some irregular verbs it is a Godsend. (e.g. puso).
Another thing it will give you other ways, e.g. idioms, to say things, so if you put in an English word and you get the normal verb infinite for example there will then follow sometimes dozens of ways the word ( in English) is used, with Spanish phrases and sentences - with English translations, often not using the Spanish verb at all.
It has practise games like Hangman and verb drills as well.
There is a new, smaller one in all ways inferior IMHO, because 1) they switched from Larousse to Mirriam-Webster and 2) it is too tiny to type the little keys and 3) it doesn't talk.
The bigger one talks with a digital male or female voice and you can hear how almost any word is pronounced with accents etc.
Now I just use a Palm Pilot with a dictionary and with a separate verb conjugation application since I have adequate Spanish to get by but now and then I need a whole new verb or noun or forget a lesser used verb form like imperfect subjuncive or whatever.
For those needing a lot of help with Spanish I have found nothing better or even equal to compare the Larousse/Franklin to.
If UR American here's Amazon's link except it is the crappy Webster's version, so look for the Larousse (it will say Larousse in red on the top above the display) - if U R Canadian in Toronto you should be able to find it in one of the Yonge St. electronic merchants (where I got mine) or maybe online:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JSFW/102-1896863-2172120?v=glance