Google Translate is a service from Google that allows someone to enter a text and it will be translated to a number of languages. It's a nice application and I used it for a work before. This service changed my life - I am now married to a lovely Chinese wife that I love so much.
Whenever I think of how Google helped me makes me appreciate the company more and more. How you might ask - I went to China before and met a very smart Chinese girl. She don't know much English and of course me, just know a few Chinese phrases. Talking was a bit hard and at times I try to talk with hand gestures. Then when we chat in QQ (China's Yahoo Messenger alternative), I thought of using Google Translate. It was fast and very convenient indeed. Just a few copy and paste and we both understood each other. Google Translate is not perfect as with all automatic language translation services are but it helped us communicate.
To make the story short, we get to know each other and as they say, "you know the rest". Now, we don't use Google anymore save for the rare times that a word is hard to explain.
Formal studying and reading language books still beat Google Translate but this is by far the fastest you can understand a different language. I still recommend everyone to pursue formal training in a different language if you will want to have a good relationship with someone of different language to fully understand each other.
Just another thing that makes me happy.
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