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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Experience with translation devices?
Reader question: Experience with translation devices?
January 28 2020
Dear readers,
Does anyone have any experience with these translators? Any brand recommendation?
Regards,
Nicky
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I use the smartphone with Google translator on it.
Very satisfied with it and free too.
(Google is probably listening, so be careful what you say)
Is standard in your phone and is called google translate.
The gadgets you are referring to are made for people who don't know this.
Of course I know how google translate works, but as PW says, Big brother is watching you. In other words, Google follows you completely. Some conversations are quite private and Big Brother has nothing to do with that. Therefore, we would like to buy a separate device
The moment you turn on your phone, you are traceable to those who would like to know, ie want to check your doings, that has nothing to do with google. Think of: hotspots, gps, whattsapp. And that : big brother … well you must be very naive if you think that we are not constantly followed. (on the street, in the car, airport, shops, etc. etc. Privacy is a popie word that everyone uses inappropriately and especially inappropriately, and preferably in relation to a telephone. They can know everything from me, it will be a beetroot for me. And if I were to do something that is not acceptable and they could track me down … zero problems with that.
Indeed Sjeng, if you have nothing to hide you can just use your phone.
No one interested in the sweet nothings you send to your wife or girlfriend or say to them or your children.
No problem for me either. They can also use my surfing behavior to show me customized advertisements at Facebook etc. That is one of the reasons that FB etc can offer you their services for free.
If you don't want that, you will have to invest in a good VPN or secure phone.
I have never seen a translation device that could properly reproduce the Thai language.
Fine if it's just a few words, you might get a little use out of it, but as soon as it gets to actual whole sentences you need for normal conversation, you can forget about it.
Because the grammar is also completely different, the translator takes the meaning out of context in such a way that the Thai listener or reader often has to have a lot of imagination to determine what is really meant.
Even if a Thai says that he has understood, this is by no means a sign that this is really the truth.555
I totally agree with John Chiang rai's opinion.
If the sentences become too long, little of them is correct and it is often a matter of guessing at the meaning.
Experience based on google translate.
However, it is ideal for translating words. Also for inscriptions, you take a picture and read the translation.
I have no experience with translation devices. I suspect they won't be much better than google translate.
If there are better experiences, I'd like to read them.
I teach Dutch language to my brother's Thai girlfriend here in the Netherlands. She would like to stay in the Netherlands, hence all the effort she is making to master Dutch. Sometimes I use the translation app “Tolk” which apparently translates reasonably well from Dutch into Thai, at least the Thai lady understands what I mean. I doubt whether the sentences that this app produces are grammatically correct, most translation apps indeed have trouble with that. The app is free to download.
https://smart-translator.topgadgetadvisor.com/nativo-pro-nl-g/
This one seems to be doing well
Smartphone is useful with scan function via photo taking on google translate
For example, by reading the menu or inscription on the building
For the rest, GT is completely unreliable. This has already caused me a lot of problems…
We all know; Thai is mainly a spoken language. Many here in the Isaan can't even read it themselves. (And often don't read it at all) intonations and sound heights.
Great fun to read the translation yourself... Guaranteed a lot of fun. And applause if the pronunciation is right...
I use this app (found on google play store):
แปลเสียง ไทย-อังกฤษ
TPK Technology Co.,LtdEducation
Full sentences are spoken in English and the Thai translation is spoken by a female voice.
You can also have a Thai record and the translation will be spoken in English.
Works fine!
strange that people recommend google translate here. Because he can't do it. I have to move heaven and earth to roughly convey in Thai what I said in English. You can shake Dutch anyway.
So: using short sentences, then checking the other way around to see if it is correct, often turns out to be wrong, and then try again differently.
you can forget more than 3 words with google translate.
It would be nice if people didn't put information here if they didn't check it themselves. Can't imagine people have a better version of google translate than me.