2. • I always find myself in a bind when I need to get
something translated quickly. A friend of mine told
me that I can find an easy way out by getting my
work translated by an automated service.
• Now I have used the translation service on a few
websites before. Usually it is to learn a cool word
or something in another language, but I have
never done it specifically for a huge document.
3.
4. My Options
• There are tons of automated translation services available online.
Just doing a simple search, you can find several websites specifically
dedicated to doing document translations. Unfortunately though, a lot
of these websites only do a small amount of translations. They only
translate a passage or two and that may be okay when you are trying
to do your foreign language homework, but for a full document I
simply didn’t have the time.
5.
6.
7. • Finding a website that does automated translation for a huge paper
like the one I had took a bit of time and energy. Luckily I found a
few, and they worked, but it wasn’t at the quality that I wanted it to
be. I didn’t realize that until I submitted my paper though. By that
time it was already too late. I never knew how these services
worked and the way that they translated work, but when I found out I
suddenly understood why my work would never be properly
translated by a free automated service.
8.
9. How It All Works
• The way it all works is pretty simple. You put your
work into a translator and it finds the corresponding
words or phrase and translates it into another
language, and in theory that works perfectly. You
can translate things all you want, and it even looks
like it is right in the new language. After I used the
service I was sure that the paper made sense. The
words looked so similar. I even asked my friends
how it looked and all of them said the same thing,
but unfortunately none of them actually knew the
language it was written in.
10.
11. • I couldn’t find someone who actually could read
or speak the language, if I could then I wouldn’t
be using the service, but when I got my
document back I realized that it was horribly
wrong. Automated translators do a lot of work in
terms of translating words in various languages,
but the translation stops there. There are a lot of
subtle things that are ignored with these
services.