There's a pretty major glitch as far as this being a useful interactive translation tool. Say you're visiting a Spanish speaking country and you don't speak Spanish. You'd set the input language to English, the output language to Spanish, type in the phrase you want translated and show the result to the person you're "talking" to. Now, hand the Kindle to that person so they can communicate back to you. They would set the input language to English, but the output languages are still only French, Spanish, and Russian, there is no option to translate back into English! There does not seem to be an alternate keyboard to enter accent marks or to use alternate alphabets.