September 22, 7:03 Mark Metcalf This agrees with my general experience that (going into English) gives noticeably more colloquial, natural results than but is sometimes freer - less specifically close to the original. This is assuming that he entered a standard Chinese word for 'dancer' and not one as slangy as 'hoofer' is in English. I can't think that any standard dictionary/translator would give 'hoofer' as a choice *at all*, let alone as the first or only. My students were writing about a famous person they admire, and one started 'Jin Xing is a famous Chinese hoofer' – he'd simply copied the word from a dictionary/translator. Two more wonders of Google Translate's Chinese (and Japanese) input: You can turn off its IME interface and just type pinyin without tone marks, and GT will give you its best guess and translation, and if you use the handwriting input method then after the first character GT will show you an autocomplete dropdown with translations just like the one it has for English. Unfortunately, my Google Translate app seems to think that the text is in Vietnamese. I tell students constantly that, while they obviously should not use any tool stupidly, life is too short to *not* use Google Translate. Filed by Victor Mair under Found in translation, Translation.But in this case (and in many other cases that I have experienced), GT is every bit as good as a human translator, and sometimes better than most. Of course, when used irresponsibly by people who know no Chinese to check it or who try to get it to translate something that is literary / classical / topolectal when it is designed for Mandarin, it can produce Chinglish howlers. Miraculously, it somehow even managed to catch the playful tone of what I wrote in Chinese.
The GT translation is both idiomatic and natural. I find it to be a very powerful and easy to use input tool.Īfter I finished typing that, I glanced over to the box at the right where the automatic English translation appears. One thing I use GT for is to compose texts in Chinese. I have sung the praises of Google Translate (GT) before (e.g., " Google Translate is even better now" ), but this morning something happened with GT that really tickled my fancy.
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