How a Translation App Helped My Mother and Me Say ‘I Love You’

Let's stop being perfect. Trying is the first step in the process. You can usually find out what they are saying by stumbling through it. It's okay. A broken and incorrect attempt is better than nothing.

The understanding that you are all trying to bridge a gap is part of letting go. "That bridge is not going to be perfect the first time that we do it, that it's going to take time for us to have that sort of shared meaning in terms of what we're saying."

He says that we should be more forgiving of ourselves as adults and embrace the imperfect nature of learning a new language because we are easy with children when they try to learn a language.

Even when aided by technology, it is still a process to communicate in a language. It's important to work with your situation. There are some levels of language comprehension in place. If you have some Chinese language ability and your parents have English language ability, how do youmish it together? Nakano said it.

I realized that my mother and I were using the app in different ways. Sometimes, we would read or play translations of phrases to fill in our gaps of knowledge, other times, we would send each other the whole text. I began to feel more comfortable using emotional words as my vocabulary increased.

May suggests asking more questions in order to get your point across. He says to be ok with the fact that the conversation may take a little bit longer for the purpose of getting to ask the question in different ways.

It's important to be aware of unwieldy sentences and phrases. According to May, idioms don't translate well in other languages. Words and sentences should be short and simple.

May said that the longer you type, the more complicated your sentence will be.

Don't trust the translation app at the beginning. We are all aware that translation apps aren't perfect. May suggests double-checking words that have multiple meanings. The Chinese translation of a text with my daughter's name is "fourth month." I change the text when I scanned it.

If you want to learn the language on your own, translation apps are a good place to start. He says you can build on that. The more you practice it, the better it gets.

It feels like the same thing. He says if you want to start training yourself to speak these things, you should go one word at a time and learn the basics. The app can be used to assist you in learning a language, but you need to work on it.

May says that technology has been able to get this far in machine translation recently. There are other apps that are available to the public. Live conversations can be translated into text with the help of Microsoft translator.

Humans are still the best at understanding context since language is so complex. I decided to take Chinese courses on the app so that I could better converse with my mom. I want to see what else we can say that we haven't said yet.