Time to stop studying languages?
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
It will never be time to stop studying languages. If nothing else, they're going to need somebody to create and service all of those thingamajigs.
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
YtownPolyglot wrote:It will never be time to stop studying languages. If nothing else, they're going to need somebody to create and service all of those thingamajigs.
I agree that it will be a long time before those thingamajigs turn up, but I bet the people servicing them (assuming that they don't become part of the currently-popular throwaway-it-away culture) will not need a whole heap of language study. I suspect that even the creators (of the language content part) will be native speakers.
Still, probably not in our lifetimes, eh
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
People who understand both languages will still be needed for testing
Anyway the idea is nothing new, it's the implementation that is so tricky
Anyway the idea is nothing new, it's the implementation that is so tricky
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Question posed by someone in clown college.
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
No, definitely not.
Such devices will improve and do a day, for sure, the job. The need for an "international language" will decrease (like Esperanto or English). But learning a language is more about interacting with people and is required too to discover a culture. Using the local language is not only speaking but "living" it. Feelings you could hardly get with a translator if you don't study the language.
We will use more and more automatic translators to read Chinese articles or trade with a German and language learning will become much more a cultural thing. Automatic Translators could save, too, a lot of minor languages by reducing the need of a third language.
Such devices will improve and do a day, for sure, the job. The need for an "international language" will decrease (like Esperanto or English). But learning a language is more about interacting with people and is required too to discover a culture. Using the local language is not only speaking but "living" it. Feelings you could hardly get with a translator if you don't study the language.
We will use more and more automatic translators to read Chinese articles or trade with a German and language learning will become much more a cultural thing. Automatic Translators could save, too, a lot of minor languages by reducing the need of a third language.
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BalancingAct wrote:Question posed by someone in clown college.
hehehe... I got it.
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
Perhaps one day we will be able to download a language like Neo downloads the ability to fly a helicopter in The Matrix. I dabbled a bit with machine translation in the 1990s, and Google Translate is pretty miraculous now compared to that. Onwards and upwards...
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rdearman wrote:hehehe... I got it.
I couldn't get it, but my wife did.
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The Shallowness of Google Translate
The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551570/
The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551570/
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Re: Time to stop studying languages?
Yeah, no. I agree with emk here. Google Translate still isn't dependable, how could this be much better? My family used GT to communicate with a Ukrainian orphan that they hosted over the holidays, and the translations were all over the place.
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