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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4442 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 17 of 17 09 September 2013 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
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Google translate does a good job with some languages that are close-together like Spanish, Italian,
French and Portuguese. But for English & Chinese you are comparing apple to oranges. Many of the sentences are grammatically correct, but depending on what you are writing about the context can be completely off. I recently translated 8 pages of online content from English to Chinese. Got about 60% done using Google Translate. However, there are some terms that are technical that I needed to check with Wikipedia and other sources for an "official" Chinese term than just inventing a new term based on the meaning. In some places I left the original English phrases but put in brackets the translated Chinese equivalent to make sure there are no misunderstandings. If I left the entire document the way Google translated it, the reader would not be able to understand what the text was about. On the other hand, not using Google Translate I would have to spend a few extra hours entering the text a few characters at a time. For Chinese there is no efficient input method like the QWERTY English keyboard. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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