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Use online translators and dictionaries

Use online translators and dictionaries

From the course: Multinational Communication in the Workplace

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Use online translators and dictionaries

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- Reading and writing text in English can be pretty scary for non-native English speakers. And we often use all sorts of tools to translate text from and into English. But how can we use them more effectively? First of all, I'd like to ask you, what do you need to translate? Is it an email you've received, an article about your job? Other documents you need to read? Or is it something you have written and needs to be translated into English? I'm asking this because there's a huge difference between translating something you need to read versus something you need to write. In the first case, you can accept the partially inaccurate translation because you probably need to understand the general meaning. This is the case for me when I receive an email or read a comment on social media in a language I can't speak. My email provider and social media offer the possibility to automatically translate the text and that's a good enough translation but never 100% accurate. Instead if you need to…

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