If you are struggling to learn a foreign language, or want one which can be used in several countries, try Esperanto. (They have an online meeting group based in Reading, England. They used to meet in Reading, until Covid-19 sent them online.)
On my Facebook page I was alerted to an entry on the polyglot page in Facebook it was about idioms. If you were a translator you would need to find the equivalent in English. On the other hand, if you are learning a language, it is helpful to see a word by word translation.
Humour and Lively Language
The word by word translation is also useful if you want a laugh, want to write humour, or want to embroider the language of your novel and entertain the reader.
In the meet.google automatic, automated translation, a speaker was counting the noes and the translator turned into nose. Very funny. Good enough for understanding when the sound quality is not good because everybody is unmuted. The words would have to be checked if you were using the automatic translation for minutes of a meeting.
Wikipedia
Humour and Lively Language
The word by word translation is also useful if you want a laugh, want to write humour, or want to embroider the language of your novel and entertain the reader.
In the meet.google automatic, automated translation, a speaker was counting the noes and the translator turned into nose. Very funny. Good enough for understanding when the sound quality is not good because everybody is unmuted. The words would have to be checked if you were using the automatic translation for minutes of a meeting.
Wikipedia
If you want side by side translations, you can compare the two languages on a tourist board site of a country you are visiting to see common words such as hotel, taxi, restaurant.
Wikipedia also appears in several languages. Pick a country of a topic you like, and read first in your home language, then in the language you wish to learn or practise.
Useful Websites
https://context.reverso.net/translation/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity
https://translate.google.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatewiki.net
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:
Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
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