Google Makes Translate Better With New Features

Unfortunately their translator works horribly and generally doesn't take into account sentence structure or grammar. That's from my experience at least, having 4 years of a second language under my belt.

Yeah, I spent forever trying to find something that wasn't grammatically incorrect for the screenshot. I eventually gave up.

Google has one of the best translations I've known.. Most software rely only on word to word translation whilst google does a great job by keeping the meaning of the phrases. I usually translate from other languages to Portuguese (Brazilian) and I get great results. Of course, it's not 100% but it's pretty close, and I usually help by sending the correct translation back to google (fixing any mistakes that the translation creates)..

It's cool! Just think that 10 years ago you would have had to buy a dictionary and find each word and that still you would have only been able to compose a literal translation. At least with this it's free, easy, fast and a bit more accurate, not to mention totally convenient. Though I think google has the money and the brainpower to create the code for a great translation engine - which would take into account sentence structure, etc. Good effort though!

Well well, the little Irish girl uses a mac!

She's a female, I'm sure she thinks its cute or goes with her purse.

I usually translate from other languages to Portuguese (Brazilian) and I get great results.

But when it´s the other side arround, from English to Portuguese (Portugal) it´s frequent to see really bad translations.

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I was replying to RicardoK, that when it´s english to Portuguese (Standard) it´s frequent to have bad translations, but it´s still a good free service by Google

Dell Mini 10 (Hackintosh). Don't worry there's a real PC in the room, too.

And yes, it's super cute and while it doesn't go with my purse, it does fit in it.

It's impossible to type in Japanese with Microsoft IME on the new translator. It removes what you type mid word. Quite obnoxious.

It's good that google added some features to its translator, but generally y use the www.wordreference.com forums, there you post, and it's translated by other forum users, which I've found to be very knowledgeable.

Я считаю, что работает хорошо, но я говорю Dont русский! ха-ха-ха

Now if they could only help Toms with spelling and grammar.

非常に面白い賢いやつ！

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A good try but translations are still awkward.

Ummm, you were supposed to translate mine to see why you shouldn't complain. Joke wasted I guess...

So... is it finally useful then, or still just a novelty to entertain geeks on a news blog?

I translated "lol" from english to arabic nd I got a
"laughing in a loud voice" in arabic.

If you somehow make a multi-language chat room, you can use this on the fly.

Previsiblemente, la calidad de las traducciones sigue siendo intermedia. Funciona mejor con palabras sueltas, o grupos de pocas palabras, que con oraciones complejas.

Moral: don't give up your foreign language studies just yet.

BTW, I didn't know that Irish had accents, and I'm surprised to see that "you" is written the same way in two languages as dissimilar as Irish and Spanish ("tú")

Irish and spanish are both based on latin (like most european languages) so you will find alot of similarities!

While Spanish IS based on Latin (like Italian, French, Portuguese or Romanian), AFAIK the Irish language doesn't have its roots in Latin, although it may have borrowed many words from it, just like English (another language that's not based on Latin) did.
But such basic words as "you" are very unlikely to have been borrowed from Latin because they most probably precede the influence of Latin on the region.

Like city_zen said, Irish is not from Latin. However, Spanish, Irish, Latin and even English are all Indo-european languages, coming from the same source. The English word for you is similar to "tú" as well: thou.

"Thou" comes from the old English þu (thu). So, yeah, they're all just about the same when it comes to "you." Tú, þu, thou, du, ti: all you.

I love google translator... a bit of a nuisance some days, but it has helped me many times.
Now we need better voice recognition tech and a update to Microsoft Sam.

I say something in English, voice recognition picks it up (voice recognition is a hit and a miss with some people, and it doesn't like me), translates it to Mandarin, and then speaks it to the other guy, all with only a second or two pause. How else am I supposed to talk to my coworker? (His English is worse then my 3 year old nephew some days.)
Or ask for the 'special service' at massage parlours before I pay all around the world ?

You stay classy, anamaniac.

Try this граматички точно - Macedonian to English