I speak what is a passable --conversational Spanish, and with some practice perhaps French! I do not read nor write either language which in my genealogical research, this "lack of" creates a problem. again, am not selling, this is a suggestion or an aide --- but it does work! download (free) http://readplease.com/ this program is down loaded & installed.. Text taken from the URL & by using copy and paste-- your written text on to the area provided in Read Please.. RP will READ the text to you and you can follow along! From what I pick up, it is quite close to the spoken language. If I was to translate the above text into Portugese, Spanish, Italian, German, French or ??? # 1 http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ # 2 http://translator.go.com/ http://www.lhsl.com/store/trans.cfm or from any of the translation software programs then taking that translated text--copy paste to area provided in Read Please Read Please will read the text in that language! glory bee