Free Translator (Free)
Version 1.0.16
REVIEW – “In Any Language, Free Translator Is Awesome”
Free Translator is an app designed to help you translate anything from one language to another. Supported languages include English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese and Vietnamese.
To use the app you select a host language and a target language. After that you just start typing. The design is simple enough, but selecting languages is a little “tap heavy”. Selecting languages requires movement through a few screens and if you want to change the host language you’ll have a lot of backing up to do. But in all likeness, you won’t be changing the host language – it will remain your native language.
Free Translator actually hooks up to Google Translate to do the actual translating. So you’ll need an internet connection to get your translation. If you plan on using this app while traveling, you’ll need to make sure you are able to get a connection. Hotels and major cities should be fine, but I wouldn’t count on Free Translator to help you in rural Italy.
Because this app uses Google Translate it has a fairly good translation. A lot of free online translators end up sounding strange, overly literal or just wrong. A good test is to type something, translate it, then translate it back into your native language. It’s a bit like playing the game telephone, but if you are going to be relying on this app for your job, it should work! I translated: “Where is the meeting? I think I might be late. Tell me how many copies of the report I should bring” into French and back into English. It came out exactly as I typed it. Not too bad. For a second test I ran “Who told you that? They are a liar! I’ll have their job!” into German and then when I translated it back into English I got: “Who did you know? You are a liar! I have to work!” Not quite as smooth, but I still trust Google to provide me with a fairly accurate translation.
Actually the trick of translating out and back into English is quite entertaining and makes this free app worth downloading if you have some time to kill.
Overall, Free Translator is easy enough to use, and reliable enough to make it a worthwhile app to add to your collection.
- Melissa S.
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Developer – Codesign
Developer’s Notes: This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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