TripLingo says it will help "you sound like the locals speak."
TripLingo is a just-launched, Atlanta-founded mobile app with a variety of awesome tools to help you really talk like the locals when abroad, and hopefully score one yourself. Start with "Learning Mode" to familiarize yourself with over 2,000 words and phrases, along with pronunciation notes, cultural info relating to your search and over 4,000 audio translation files which can be played phonetically, normal, or at slow speeds. The most valuable function may be the "The Slang Slider", which helps you change your phrase between Formal, Casual, Slang, and Crazy, so if you want to say "hello beautiful, how are you?", you can pick the casual "what's up, beauty?", or just go for it with the "crazy" French term "Ca roule poulette?", which means "It rolls, chick?", hey, I'd fall for that.
I'm not sure if visitors to Atlanta will have access to "naked dogs" and "scattered, covered and smothered" but this app might save Americans from generations of additional embarrassment and ridicule.
The developers are starting with German, Spanish, and French, and will soon roll out Portuguese and Italian, and plan to have the web version launched in about a month. Give it a try.
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