Best Travel Apps #3 – Communications

Best Travel AppsWe have rounded up our favorite apps in our Best Travel Apps series.  Here is Part III – Communications, which includes:

  • Learn a Language
  • Translation
  • Communications

Please visit the other installments of our Best Travel Apps series:

Let us know what your favorites are!

Learn a Language

World Nomads – Travel Language Guides

  • Features:
    • Learn basic travel phrases in 28 different languages
  • Cost: Free
  • Platform:
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Duo Lingo

  • Features:
    • Learn 22 world languages through a game setting
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
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Memrise

  • Features:
    • Online memorization game using flashcards, mnemonics, and spaced repetition to learn 14+ languages
    • Has other non-language courses available
  • Cost: Free or $2.99 for full version
  • Platform:
  • Screenshots:

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Translation

Google Translate

  • Features:
    • Translate between 103 different languages by typing
    • Can be used offline for 52 languages
    • Speak (32 languages), write (93 languages), or take a picture (37 languages)for translations
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
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iTranslate

  • Features:
    • iTranslate enables travelers, students, business
      professionals, employers, and medical staff to read, write
      and speak in 90 languages, anywhere in the world
    • Translate text or websites, start voice conversations or
      lookup words, meanings, and even verb conjugations in over 90 languages
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
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SayHi Translate

  • Features:
    • Universal Voice Translator
    • Talk to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad and hear your words back in different languages.
  • Cost: Free
  • Platform:
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Communications

Viber

  • Features:
    • Free text, calling, photo messages and location-sharing with Viber users*
    • No registration, alias or invitations required
    • Instantly integrates with your own contact list
    • Best-quality mobile calls using 3G or Wi-Fi
    • *Calls use your data plan
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
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WhatsApp

  • Features:
    • Fast, simple, secure messaging and calling for free*, available on phones all over the world. *Data charges may apply.
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
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Messenger

  • Features:
    • Texts: Know when messages are delivered and seen
    • Voice and video calls: Call across the world for free (data charges may apply)
    • Photos & Videos: Send photos and videos instantly
    • Location: Send a map of any location
    • Stickers: Say it better with stickers
    • Voice messages: say, sing or shout your messages
    • Payments: Send money securely and easily
    • Groups: Start group chats with your favorite people
  • Cost: Free
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