Nowadays, the advancement in machine translation is being made at such a breakneck pace that some people fear that it will soon render the attempt to learn foreign languages pointless. In my opinion, students are still required to learn foreign languages for the reasons below.
The practical upshot of language is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. I think truly communication with someone entails much more than simply a literal translation of words. Language is complex, constantly changing and it is bounded up with our culture, identity and the way we see the world. When we use words, idioms and metaphors, wordplay and often draw on cultural nuances to make connections and express ourselves, it is impossible to accurately convey through machine translation alone. As a matter of fact, current translating machines are solely proficient at providing detailed meanings of single word. When it comes to translating a long phrase or sentence, nevertheless, the results are likely to become an object of ridicule because of its comprehensibility. In this case, there is no difficulty to humans as their brains are agile enough to comprehend the metaphor given by the speaker, something machine translations are incapable of. Without updates on a regular basic, machines tend to become obsolete and useless. Moreover, most of machine translations need internet connection so if someone is in rush and have no internet connection, he will face difficulty. What is more, machine translation is unable to translate from different file formats such as PDF, DOC, TXT, etc.
To conclude, although machine translation is free and good for rush projects, there is still room for development. It is still necessary for students to learn foreign languages since there is hardly an alternative for now.
Nowadays, the advancement in
machine
translation
is
being made
at such a breakneck pace that
some
people
fear that it will
soon
render the attempt to learn foreign
languages
pointless. In my opinion, students are
still
required to learn foreign
languages
for the reasons below.
The practical upshot of
language
is that if you stick one in your ear, you can
instantly
understand anything said to you in any form of
language
. I
think
truly
communication with someone entails much more than
simply
a literal
translation
of words.
Language
is complex,
constantly
changing and it
is bounded
up with our culture, identity and the way we
see
the world. When we
use
words, idioms and metaphors, wordplay and
often
draw on cultural nuances to
make
connections and express ourselves, it is impossible to
accurately
convey through
machine
translation
alone. As a matter of fact,
current
translating
machines
are
solely
proficient at providing detailed meanings of single word. When it
comes
to translating a long phrase or sentence,
nevertheless
, the results are likely to become an object of ridicule
because
of its comprehensibility.
In this case
, there is no difficulty to humans as their brains are agile
enough
to comprehend the metaphor
given
by the speaker, something
machine
translations
are incapable of. Without updates on a regular basic,
machines
tend to become obsolete and useless.
Moreover
, most of
machine
translations
need internet connection
so
if someone is in rush and have no internet connection, he will face difficulty.
What is more
,
machine
translation
is unable to translate from
different
file formats such as PDF, DOC, TXT, etc.
To conclude
, although
machine
translation
is free and
good
for rush projects, there is
still
room for development. It is
still
necessary for students to learn foreign
languages
since there is hardly an alternative for
now
.