#PROBLEMS WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATE APP FULL#
You'd miss that mutely chainsmoking 14-year-old Belgian boy with a full beard who glowers at you from the kitchen table.Ĥ "Sixty Two" translated into Filipino on Google Translate comes out as the numerals "62". In my case this would amount to "bank", "swimming pool" and "Hello my name is Stuart, I am 11 years old".Ģ If Google Translate had been responsible for the English version of The Girl From Ipanema (originally, in Portuguese, Garota de Ipanema), Frank Sinatra would have had to croon "Girl in the golden body, sun From Ipanema, The It swung its more than a poem", which doesn't really scan as well.ģ If everybody relied on Google Translate, exchange trips would become a thing of the past. Without seriously learning a language, all you could say to a French person offline is whatever you memorised at school. Google Translate will never be any substitute for learning a foreign language, and here's why:ġ Google Translate is only good when there's internet.
#PROBLEMS WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATE APP SOFTWARE#
Is it possible that this collapse might be partly down to the rise of free software such as Google Translate? After all, why waste several years of your life perfecting every last conversational nuance of a second language when you can listlessly prod "CAN I HAVE SOME CHIPS?" on to your phone and then wave a screen reading "POSSO TER UM POUCO CHIPS?" in the face of a disappointed Portuguese waiter? T he number of British universities offering specialist modern-language courses is in sharp decline.
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