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Life & fun · October 9, 2012

Mantaphrase, an app that lets you converse in a foreign language

Mantaphrase is an interactive communication app that lets you converse in a foreign language.

Mantaphrase, an app that lets you converse in a foreign language launched on October 9, 2012 with 127 votes, #14 of 487 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

Mantaphrase is an iPhone app that enables communication in foreign languages without requiring users to speak or understand the language. The app allows users to communicate phrases and receive answers through an interactive interface. It is designed for travelers and people who need to bridge language barriers in real-time conversations while abroad or with foreign speakers.

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From the sources

Welcome to the Mantaphrase blog ! We will post our releases, features, and user stories right here. Today we’re proud to launch Mantaphrase . Mantaphrase is an app for your iPhone and iPod Touch that makes communication in a foreign language easy. Using this app, you can communicate a phrase and get an answer without needing to know how to pronounce or understand the foreign language. It’s available on the App Store starting today. We started this project because the current solutions for communication in another language simply don’t work. Patrick came back from a 9 month exchange from Japan, at first not knowing the language. He couldn’t use Google Translate because he didn’t have…from mantaphrase.com

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