Tech vs Translation
6 min readApr 3, 2019
As a kid, I was fascinated with online machine translation. As an English teacher in 2019, it was my biggest pet peeve.
Some examples in this blog might be vulgar or offensive to some audiences.
I used to believe computer translators would destroy human translator jobs. Then, some of the strangest things I heard while teaching English as a foreign language were the faults of computer translation apps. Still, we see advertisements for gadgets that claim to translate speech in real time, and one study claims that Google Translate could pass UCLA’s English Proficiency…
