A review on Google Translator
- 2. WhatisGoogleTranslator?Itisan online free translatorwhich has severallanguagestotranslate
- 3. I willfocuson a textabout “Coca-Cola” called “Atlanta beginnings” in order to see what kind of problems Google Translator has when it translates texts.
- 4. Firstofall,weinsertthetextandselectthetwolanguagesthatwewanttoworkwith as in thefollowingexample
- 5. ThenwegetthistextWe can propose a bettertranslationforthistext
- 8. Word orderproblemsThecorrectsentencewould be: VENDIÓ SÓLO 9 VASOS DE COCA-COLA AL DÍAThesentence: vendió a 9 vasos de Coca-Cola al díaistotally WRONG!!
- 9. OtherSyntancticproblemsThecorrectformwould be: LA FARMACIA DE JACOBHereGoogleTranslatorisunabletodistinguishtheposessionisthissentence
- 10. Google has translated “named” as the participle “nombrada” and in this case it is an action carried out by someone so the correct form would be “NOMBRÓ”
- 11. As a conclusion…
- 12. GoogleTranslatoris a goodtool in ordertotranslatetextsintoseverallanguagesItusuallycommitsmistakesthatshould be takenintoaccountwhenwe use ittotranslate as thetextwegetisnotenterelycorrect. However…
- 13. THE END