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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5839 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 25 of 30 31 December 2010 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
I fully agree with this statement and therefore I wouldn't use Google Translate to translate into Danish or Turkish, because I couldn't detect all the mistakes the program makes. When Google translates into Dutch I know what's correct and what's nonsense. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5244 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 26 of 30 31 December 2010 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Well, to back this up, here's two examples. From
Google Translate gave this:
Which captures the essence of the sentence. I can now see what the sentence means and make sense of it in my head. However, from this:
Google Translate gave me
Which is clearly not the right translation. Edited by Whitefish on 31 December 2010 at 3:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5058 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 27 of 30 13 January 2011 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Google translate is fed humaniod language and spits out computer generated junk. However
when used from English to your T.L with easy beginner level sentences it can be quite useful and you will detect it's errors. You can also translate it back and fort a few times, or translate only one word. I use it as a tool along with my course book, dictionary and of course speaking IRL with Russians. Just remember not to trust this robot completely! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5060 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 28 of 30 14 January 2011 at 2:34am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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I use Google translate as my Farsi dictionary, since I don't have one. As a dictionary, it's very helpful (but I still like to plug the word in in both English and Arabic to see get a second opinion for Farsi).
However, as many people have mentioned, it' grammar stinks! Maybe it's better for the more "popular" languages, but it can't conjugate verbs in Farsi at all. I like to think of Google Translate as a fellow language learner who knows more than I do but isn't infallible. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6061 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 29 of 30 22 January 2011 at 5:13am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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even though google is faster I think babylon online is much better
http://translation.babylon.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5978 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 30 of 30 22 January 2011 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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I recently started using a new reading strategy based around GT. I'll take an ebook in my target language and convert it to HTML and adjust the font and the margins a bit. I have the firefox add-on Globefish installed, which instantly translates highlighted text into a little text bar at the bottom of the firefox window. I also use a program called X-Mouse Button Control to alter my mouse click commands. I've changed one of the button layers so that a left click automatically double clicks instead of single clicks, so that with one click on a word (or a click and drag on a phrase) in the ebook it'll highlight and translate the text instantly.
The downside is that I need to be both on a computer and online for all this to work, but I've managed to make longer novels "more comprehensible", and am no longer burdened by the time it takes to look up an unknown word or phrase. Edited by carlonove on 27 January 2011 at 6:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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