| The globalization process has begun several decades ago. It has led to a great increase in political and economic contacts between different states, as well as to the development of tourism. The quickly developing globalization process is underlined by universal foreign language penetration and it has told positively upon different branches of our life. English is traditionally regarded as the international language. English is spoken with different level of proficiency by millions of people throughout the world. Almost every person throughout the world has at least a general idea of the English language. At the same time other foreign languages are less widespread. If people face with the text or document created in a foreign language they are looking for a way to conceive what it's saying.
Translation is a procedure of interpreting text created in one language into another one. Conventionally it is considered that there is 2 fundamental methods of translation: automatic and manual translation. Manual translation is the earliest type of translation process and it consists in just translating the text phrase by phrase by a person. At the same time automatic translation is an invention of the contemporary technical advance and it has become widespread not so long ago. Automatic translation can be accomplished with the help of special computer programs, like Prompt, or it can also be done online at the websites specialized in foreign languages.
We have already automated numerous procedure. But nevertheless, in relation to automatic translation there are certain minuses. Taking into consideration that there are thousands of unusually fixed expressions in every foreign language, it is not possible to foresee all the probable cases in translation. That's why the software uses the most common meaning of the word, and this meaning isn't always the best variant for translation. In addition, sometimes the software translates the fixed expression word by word, and as a result the meaning of the sentence is changed. The most obvious benefit of the automatic translation process is promptness. But still, significant documents you'd better translate manually or turn to special translation firms. |
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