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5th translation(Second version)-02

Finally, the question "Did my brother/sister do the cooking?" was translated from English into Korean.

5th translation(Second version)-01

The sentence "Did my brother/sister do the cleaning?" was changed. "Cleaning" was substituted by "cooking" and in this example, the sentence was translated from English into Chinese.

5th translation-English to Korean

The question "Did my brother/sister do the cleaning?" was translated from English into Korean.

5th translation-from English into Chinese

Here, the sentence "My brother/sister did the cleaning?" was changed from a statement into a question.

4th translation

The sentence, "My brother/sister did the cleaning." was translated from English into Chinese and Korean.

The introduction of the 4th and the 5th translation.

In the 4th and the 5th translation, the pragmatics of Google Translate will be tested. We will be looking at the word brother and sister. In English, brother can refer to older brother and younger brother and sister can refer to older and younger sister. However, in Chinese and Korean, it is a different case.

In Chinese, different words are used when referring to older brother(哥哥), younger brother(弟弟), older sister(姐姐), and younger sister(妹妹).

In Korean, when referring to younger siblings, the word "동생" is used, which generally refers to younger siblings. When referring to younger brother, a character "남"which means boy is added before the word the word "동생". When talking about younger sister, the character "여" is added which means girl. However, when calling older siblings, different words are used according to the gender of the speaker. There are 4 ways in calling older siblings in which two for guys and two for girls.
Guys calling their older brother: 형
Guys calling their older sister: 누나
Girls calling their older brother: 오빠
Girls calling their older sister: 언니

3rd translation- The weather is good today.

The third translation is "The weather is good today." It was translated from Chinese into Korean and English. The translations were fine. It seems Google is ready to enjoy the nice weather!!!

2nd translation-English to Korean

The sentence, "What kind of novel do you like?" also got translated from English into Korean. The translation was not good.

2nd translation- From Chinese to English and Korean

This time, the sentence "What kind of novel do you like?" was translated from Chinese into English and Korean.

2nd translation- Korean to Chinese

This example also was translated from Korean to Chinese. In the Chinese translation, the subject you and the verb like were omitted.

2nd translation-Korean to English

The second translation, "What kind of novel do you like?", was translated from Korean into English. In this case, a question mark makes a difference.

1st translation

The first translation is "Do you need anything?", which was translated from English to Korean. As we can see, Google Translate translated the sentence as "What do you have to do?" when it is in Korean.

Google Translate-Introduction

    When translation is needed, people usually think of Google Translate. Google Translate operates based on "Statistical Machine Translation", in which detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators. What you have to do is to go the website and type in what you need to translate into the box on the left. Next, the translation will be generated on the right hand side. Google Translate is supposed  to be a useful tool in helping people doing translation job. However, the more people use it, we find that it generates weird translation. In my research, I will be looking at the translations to see what happens to the translation. I will be focusing on Chinese, English, and Korean.