Patent ID: 7162412

Claim:
A multilingual conversation assist system for assisting a conversation between users of a plurality of languages, comprising: a control means prompting a user to select a conversational situation; and a database comprising a single basic table, storing common conceptual information about at least two languages available for multilingual conversations, a plurality of tables, one table for each of said at least two languages storing language data for conversations in each language, and a plurality of subdatabases, one subdatabase for each of said at least two languages storing data available to a conversation, said single basic table being divided into a word identification number field, an image display file name field, and a conception field, a word identification number in said word identification number field being common among all of said at least two languages as long as a conception of a word is common, the word identification field serving to specify a primary key, each of said subdatabases including an area for storing data for setting a conversational situation, a control section for storing a control program for said control means for reading the setting data of the conversation situation and displaying language units corresponding to the selected conversation situation, and an area for storing language units that are used for said at least two languages, wherein displaying of a language unit is made effective using multimedia so as each language unit may be represented by a graphic image corresponding to a particular language unit, a language unit presented is in a first language, a phonetic expression of said language unit in second language, and voice output activation corresponding to the language unit presented in the second language.