We're passionate travelers first and dedicated travel product developers second. In fact, it was our love of travel that inspired us to start Lingo in 1990. In the beginning there was just the dream, but what a dream it was! After years spent navigating the airports, cities, highways, trains and taxis of the worlds great cities, we decided that the world needed a better mousetrap  or, more accurately, a better line of travel translators. The world needed a translator that could serve as a complete travelers tool. We set out to create translators that connected people together and converted conversations into communities.

To achieve this dream, we understood the need to go further than other translator manufacturers. We set out to design and build talking and nontalking translators that provide more language options than anyone else  along with a host of builtin travel utilities that todays business and pleasure traveler need. We developed better databases of the vocabulary and phrases that are used by real people in real places every day. We understand that every language has a formal and a popular version. Our translators provide both.

As a result of this relentless commitment to develop translators that function as a complete travel resource, Lingo is today the global leader in multilanguage translators. Ours are the most sophisticated handheld, affordably priced translators you will find anywhere. We guarantee you will be 100% satisfied with your Lingo purchase!

Who can benefit from a Lingo translator? Anyone who needs to travel or communicate effectively in a foreign language should carry a Lingo translator. Business travelers, pleasure travelers, and students are our primary customers. But so too are residents of large multicultural urban centers.

Many of our customers report that their Lingo translator is the best travel insurance they ever bought! We happen to agree. If you travel with a Lingo translator, you are assured that you will be able to communicate anywhere, at anytime, with anybody!