Copyright 2001 Ken R. Pence 
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Essentially I recorded these phrases on my home computer. Takes about two to three days for a native speaker to translate the nine pages of phrases and then about 5 - 6 hours to record. It then takes a day or so per language to import these into PDF documents. Keep all these files in the same folder.

Normally takes 2.7 to 8 MB per language. Kurdish is particularly large because each phrase uses the two Kurdish dialects. Laotian uses a 'middle' Laotian from the 19 main dialects and seems to work pretty well. Most of the Spanish is 'Tex-Mex' - but can generally be understood by someone from South/Central American countries.

Currently I have Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Korean (thanks to International Language Institute), Kurdish, Swahili, Laotian - Nashville has about 80,000 residents in-county where English is a second language. 

Have some Cantonese and Vietnamese but will probably redo those languages in my spare time.

Plan to add the following languages in the following year:
Albanian, Arabic (common form), Farsi, Hindi, Somalian, Mandarin.

Contact information:

Ken R. Pence
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
200 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 37201
(615) 862-7750
(615) 862-7058 Fax
http://epage.arch.com/      6158178217    (for short text message)
kpence@police.nashville.org
pence@rateyourrisk.org
ken.pence@vanderbilt.edu