Communication Is an Essential Part of Human Life

Humans love to communicate. Some of the greatest pieces of technology in the modern age, the telephone, the radio, the camera, television, video, the computer, and the Internet have all been designed because of mankind’s love of communication. People love to speak to each other about the everyday events that go on in their lives. They are also interested in learning and communicating with each other about the major events that take place not only in their home community but also around the world. Unfortunately, the fact that not everyone on the planet speaks the same language makes communicating a challenge. It puts up a barrier of communication between people.

One of the amazing things about humans is that humans are dreamers. These dreams will lead them to take steps that improve the human condition. Many dream of a time when mankind will be able to communicate with each other clearly without language being a barrier. Interestingly, mankind is on the verge of seeing those dreams become a reality.

Right now, people can see a sample of that dream when they use online services that are designed to automatically translate from one language to another. A person can go on a website, input a text in their language, and receive a translation in a foreign language. While these programs do have their place, they have some very serious limitations. Automatic translating programs are not able to accurately translate large swatches of text. They are not able to translate idioms and certain verbs and adjectives correctly. A good example of this is trying to translate a very common phrase like ‘the cat is out of the bag’ into a foreign language. A native speaker understands that this term means that something that was kept secret is now out in the open or known to others. However, a translating program would literally translate that phrase to give the idea that there was a cat that was trapped in some sort of bag that has now escaped.

Thankfully, there are translating services such as those found at http://www.translationgenie.com/ for example that take written or spoken text and translate it into another language. What is great about having a real person do the translation is that they are able to grasp the nuances of the language that is written and convey the same ideas using idioms and other expressions that are commonly used in the language that they are translating into.