Using Google Translate

Hello everyone, my name is Deanna Machuca and I am a current student attending Arizona State University. Some quick facts about me; I am majoring in film and I am very interested into learning many cultures or atleast just basic things about that culture. As of right now I am currently interested in the Korean language, films, and most of all the music. So I am starting to take classes to learn this language and when it comes to practicing I like to do something fun at home that does not involve writing more papers. What I like to do that can test me or just to see how much I am improving, I like to watch Korean movies or drama and listen to Korean music just to see how well I am getting with my listening skills. As for reading Korean, I like to go to websites that I like that is in the Korean language. Eventually I will find something on that website that I want to know more about I end up of course not knowing what it's talking about and how I can understand it. So this is where Google Translate really comes in handy and helps you out. You can easily go to Google Translate which is free to use. It is very helpful for anyone who is learning another language, needs help communicating to someone who speaks a different language, or just like what I am doing. Just wanting to see what an article is talking about. You can use this for translating sentences, documents, or even an entire website. So this is what I will be showing you how to do today and just letting you know that using Google Translate can be very helpful and it is very helpful. So the first you can go on is to a website that uses the language you are trying to figure out or that your interested in and at first just simply you know try reading it amd work your way around the website and find out where you end up being interesred in just for fun. So for me, I really love the Korean music I can just simply go onto my favorite music entertainment's website. So that is what you see right now ygfamily.com And now that we're here uhm as you can see it says artist actors. It is an industry ah entertainment idustry so it has both musicans and actors. But for now we're goinging to be looking at the news area and the news area basically is whoever your a fan of they most likely have something written about that person your a fan of. So for me, I'm going to be looking for anything that has something to do with Lee Hi since I am currently a fan of hers. And right now just you know not needing to scroll down Im just going to be choosing the very first one. Which is right here. And right now as you can see in the picture its talking about online release so Im umm thinking its talking about when her album will be released but I am not really sure. And as we scroll down as you can see its all in Korean basically and all I can probably do is just re just read it out loud and I am not even sure that I am reading it right and just speaking it right. So this is again where Google Translate comes in to save the day. So the first thing you want to is high light the entire the article and right click and click on copy and then go to translate.goolge.com which is right here ready for you. And now we are going to be begin how to use google translate itself on the website, on its website So the first thing you want to go straight to are these 3 light gray buttons and looking at "From: Spanish" the "From" button you can say is basically saying the language that you are trying to know more about or figure out what its sayin trying to say. Like now, we're trying to find out what this article is saying that is written in Korean. So we're just going to click on this button and look for "Korean" which is right here. And then now we're going to go to the "To:" button where is says "To: German" So the "To" button is saying the language the your that youre fluent in; and you can speak, you can read it well that is your native language you can say SO you're going click on "To" and look for the languge you are fluent in. So I am fluent in English, so I am going to find "English". And now I am basically ready just ready to find out what the article is trying to say. And first right now before we show it all; you can see right now that theres this weired key board thing right here and it has the Korean laguage. Thats basically if you wanna write you can write the Korean language but since you know righ now were not really tring to write it down. were jusr gong to copy and paste it. So were just going to look at these 2 big rectangles real quick. The white rectangle is where you will paste the sentences, document, or webstire that youre trying to find out on while this gray rectangle is where google translate will translate it into your fluent language. So back to the white rectangle, were going to right click and go to paste. And we can just exit that right now and automatically as you can see google translate translates it into your fulent laguage really fast. So now I can read what YG entertainment was trying to say about Lee Hi's album. And as you can see uh google translate translates these uh other languages really well, I can read it and it all makes sense And thats all basically you need to know about google translate and if you know that then you're a pro at it already. So at the beggining what I was saying about not knowing if I could read the article right or if I'm even saying the article write. Google offeres this cool thing whre you can hear it speak the language you're trying to figure out. SO all you gotta do is go to the white box and the bottom right corner this little, speaker, volume, little picture and it says listen. All you gotta do is click it amd it will speak like so (Korean Languge is being spoken). And that's really cool it does that for you and so as someone who's learning a language it can help me see if I am reading it right first of all and to see if my speading of the reading and speaking is improving faster and faster so that is one cool way that you can use Google Translate. And what is also awesome is that fact that Google Translate is something very unique when it comes to trying to figure out if your speaking the language right. So about google translate real quick before I end everything. It is that um whenver you use it on your computer, your computer will keep improving its translating due to many patterns found in the many of texts, documents, website that the computer had searched and translated for you and many others whenever they're on thier computer. So being able to discover the rules of the languages on its own rather than someone putting in the rules. And telling them this is how to do this and that etc like your teacher teaching you, you can say. So that is one thing I really like Google Translate I get the feeling you know were both improving in some way. So hopefully that helps you to understand how helpful it is and to find a better way into practicing and funner way you can say too not only just thinking I have to learn in text because you can really learn faster a new language when having something put into it that you enjoy or also if you're not really into learninga new language maybe just for fun seeing a random laguage what its saying. Well everyone I hoped you enjoyed my little fun way to use Google Translate when learning a new language. i thnk thats pretty fun. So i hope that you enjoyed my little fun way to use Google Translate when learning a new language and that involves another language in genereal so thank you and good luck!