Electronic multilingual numeric and language learning tool

A system comprising:

• a microphone for receiving sound input from a user, wherein, in operation, a portion of the sound input is associated with a spoken source phrase in a source language selected from multiple languages;
• a multilanguage database embodied in a computer readable medium including a plurality of phrase templates associated with a respective plurality of phrases;
• a speech recognition module embodied in a computer readable medium for converting the spoken source phrase into a recognized source phrase;
• a translation engine embodied in a computer readable 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;
• a template look-up engine embodied in a computer readable medium for finding the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages;
• a parameterization module embodied in a computer readable medium for deriving parameters from the sound input and applying the parameters to the phrase template associated with the destination phrase;
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• a speaker for outputting the parameterized destination phrase template to the user as a spoken translation in the selected destination language.