Sony's Talkman for the PSP

I bought a Talkman for my Sony PSP which comes with a add on mic. It is suppose to be able to translate to understand Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. There is this blue bird call Max who act as a translator. We need to set one of the language as our mother tongue and use the PSP custom microphone to pose a question. Max will understand and translate it into the language you desire! However, I still cant get him to understand me leh...... It also comes with many preset situations for me to choose from. For example in a hotel, shopping, dining, at the airport, makes friends, etc. Max can help.

I hope I will be able to learn some useful phrases for my coming Japan tour....in September....