15. A portable, real time voice translation system for use by use by a child of preschool or elementary school age, comprising: a translation system for use on a single unit, portable device having a processor and a memory, the translation system for use by use by a child of preschool or elementary school age and having a content state selector on the front of the device that includes simplified pictorial representations of a plurality of translatable content for easy selection by use by the child of preschool or elementary school age; 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 outputting pace being adjustable 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 0.010 seconds; and, a graphical user interface on the front of the device that includes a text display of the source phrase and the destination phrase; wherein, 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 the 0.010 seconds.
20. The system of claim 15 , wherein the executing includes displaying a written form of the source phrase, a written form of the destination phrase, or both.