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RE: How to Read a Foreign language
Google translator in combination with Google Voice helped me quite a bit when I was travelling in Laos and Vietnam earlier this year. Most of the people do not speak any English in those countries and they loved the the voices instead of them having to read the translations.
For similar languages with similar structures its not a surprise it works well, but for languages that are so different to European languages its absolutely amazing that you could use it.
Goole translate is getting better :) I'm sure grammatically, things were not 100% right, but I could have relatively simple conversations going.
It sure helps with communication. There was one museum we visited in Gent which had a picture on the wall that looked like a post war time revolution or something. It turned out when we translated that it was a student protest over the price of Beer. :)
LOL! Great you could translate it, otherwise you would have had a while different idea of the things you saw in the museum :0)