8. A visual communication device which comprise: a keyboard having both alphabetic keys for entering words character by character and dedicated keys for entering entire words or combination thereof in a single keystroke, said entire words or combinations thereof having been selected as a function of their frequency of recurrence in common conversations; a first addressable memory for storing baselanguage words and corresponding target-language translations thereof, said base language words and corresponding translations grouped in said first memory according to their morphological functions, with nouns further grouped according to number and gender, adjectives further grouped according to number, gender and irregular formation, and verbs further grouped on the basis of regularity or irregularity of formation; a second addressable memory for storing selected ones of base-language words and corresponding target-language translations thereof which can be entered in a single keystroke by means of said dedicated keys; a third addressable memory for storing both the addresses of second-memory words and a hexidecimal code for the character represented by each alphabetic key; means responsive to the actuation of said dedicated keys for fetching from said third addressable memory the addresses of the selected second-memory words, retaining the addresses of such words, and fetching the words themselves from the second memory; means, responsive to the actuation of said alphabetic keys, for addressing said first memory; comparing the ordered combination of characters selected from said keyboard to the words stored in said first memory; and means for fetching words therefrom which correspond to the combination of characters selected, and means for retaining the addresses of the words stored within said first memory where the words are found; a means for displaying the words of the base language, selected from said keyboard; a sentence pattern storage memory for holding a string of addresses of said sentence-forming words from said first and second memories in a synactically-determined order, wherein said sentence pattern storage memory comprises a subject phrase storage area, a predicate phrase storage area, and an object phrase storage area; a means for reordering said retained addresses of said first and second memories as a function of the morphological and syntactical rules of the target language so that the reordered sequence of addresses correspond to a grammatically correct translation of said sentence-forming word strings; a means for fetching target language words from said first and second memories; and a means for displaying target language words.
9. The device claimed in claim 8 wherein the subject phrase storage area, the predicate phrase storage area and the object phrase storage area each comprises a plurality of memory locations which are used to store the morphologically-related addresses of the words of a particular sentence in a predetermined syntactical order.