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In ear Italian translator from Lingmo

In ear Italian translator from Lingmo

Old Jun 19th 2017, 7:18 pm
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For those of us struggling with Italian our difficulties could be at an end according to the Telegraph. Next month Lingmo International start selling an in ear Italian translator for a modest £140. There is a delay of 5 seconds that might cause a few problems with impatient Italian speakers. I expect you have to tell them to wait 5 seconds at the end of a sentence. I wonder how it manages with strong accents?

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For those of us struggling with Italian our difficulties could be at an end according to the Telegraph. Next month Lingmo International start selling an in ear Italian translator for a modest £140. There is a delay of 5 seconds that might cause a few problems with impatient Italian speakers. I expect you have to tell them to wait 5 seconds at the end of a sentence. I wonder how it manages with strong accents?
That's fine...as long as the Italian doesn't use a dialect.
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Old Jun 23rd 2017, 3:19 pm
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Could be useful, as long as it doesn't become a disincentive to learning Italian properly. After all, if you don't learn the language, the other person is going to need an in-ear translator to understand you!

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Old Jun 23rd 2017, 6:04 pm
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Could be useful, as long as it doesn't become a disincentive to learning Italian properly. After all, if you don't learn the language, the other person is going to need an in-ear translator to understand you!

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You just have to carry a spare one with you. With a 5second delay I can't see it being very useful.
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As someone who works as a translator, I maintain a healthy skepticism of these sorts of devices. They can be handy for giving the basic gist - which is often enough - but certainly my experience of machine translation is that I wouldn't trust it with anything important!
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As someone who works as a translator, I maintain a healthy skepticism of these sorts of devices. They can be handy for giving the basic gist - which is often enough - but certainly my experience of machine translation is that I wouldn't trust it with anything important!
I would be curious to try it out. As you say the basic gist is OK but sometimes there is a little word that alters the meaning of a sentence. European police must be desperate for Arabic speakers so such a gadget might interest them.
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