[Yr11 Information Technology] Google Foreign Language Translator

[Mark Kelly]

I usually demonstrate the drawbacks of electronic translation by getting 
the software to translate some text to (say) French and then back into 
English.  The results are usually amusing.

However, I tried it today with your email and the end result was nearly 
identical to the original.

Either Google translate is now excellent, or they've worked out what 
people are doing, and if they detect such to-and-fro translations, they 
just give you the original text back again  :-)

mppascoe at bigpond.com wrote:
> Sorry for any Cross Posts
> 
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> 
> Hi everyone,
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> 
> This is probably really “old news” to a lot of people… but….
> 
> It still might be useful for anyone with a sister school o/s, or needing 
> to communicate in writing with parents in their native language, or who 
> has teachers or students communicating with counterparts o/s, and so on.  
> 
>  
> 
> Recently I have been communicating online with some people in France, 
> using my scratchy old language skills, and a big thick ancient copy of 
> the New Cassells 2-way Dictionary. Talk about living in the dark ages ! 
> 
> I mentioned this to someone at work, and they told me about the free 
> Google Online Translator.
> This is a great stand alone tool to use online at: 
> http://translate.google.com/# <http://translate.google.com/>
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> 
> There is also a means of adding it to your Google Blog so that anyone 
> overseas can fully translate and view your blog in their native language.
> 
> This makes your Blog far more accessible to international visitors. 
>   (There is probably an equivalent kind of widget for Word Press as well).
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> To find out more go to my Blog post at: 
> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/2009/07/blogger-foreign-language-translator.html 
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> OR
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> Perhaps just go to this Blog to do some quick “e-travel” and see some 
> beautiful pictures of the French countryside: 
> http://pissenlits.blogspot.com/  
> 
> Take the text from this French Blog, and use 
> http://translate.google.com/# <http://translate.google.com/> to 
> translate the French to English, and you will really begin to see the 
> full picture !
> 
>  
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Paul Pascoe
> 
> IT / Maths Teacher
> 
> St Francis Xavier College Berwick
> 
> mppascoe at bigpond.com <mailto:mppascoe at bigpond.com>
> 
> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/
> 
> http://elearnweb2.blogspot.com/
> 


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