8. A method for a child of preschool or elementary school age to use a portable, real time voice translation, the method comprising: obtaining with a translation system for use on a single unit, portable device having a processor and a memory, the translation system having a computer program that is operable for executing the following functions: accessing a multilanguage database embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a plurality of phrase templates associated with a respective plurality of phrases; selecting a source language from a plurality of source languages and a destination language from a plurality of destination languages; inputting a source phrase; transmitting the source phrase to (i) a speech recognition module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for converting the spoken source phrase into a recognized source phrase; (ii) a translation engine embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for translating the recognized source phrase in the selected source language into a destination phrase in a destination language selected from multiple languages, wherein the plurality of phrases in the multilanguage database include the destination phrase; and, (iii) a template look-up engine embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for finding the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages; and, outputting the spoken translation in the selected destination language; the translation system having a total time between the input of the source phrase and output of the destination phrase that is no slower than 0.010 seconds; selecting a translatable content using a content state selector on the front of the system that includes a plurality of simplified pictorial representations of a plurality of translatable content for easy selection by a child of preschool or elementary school age; adjusting the translation pace from a real-time translation to a slow and more easily assimilated translation pace for ease of use by the child of preschool or elementary school age, the real-time pace being no slower than the 0.010 seconds; viewing a graphical user interface on the front of the device that includes a text display of the translated content to learn spelling of the source phrase and the destination phrase; and, executing the computer program.
12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the executing includes capturing speech parameters of the input source phrase, applying the captured speech parameters to the phrase template associated with the destination language, and using the result to mimic characteristics of the input source phrase, wherein the captured speech parameters include the pitch, cadence, and tone characteristics of the input source phrase.