Hi there, Thanks for the feedback. Google Translate does however remember the previous languages you have translated, and they are listed in the top of the selector as recently used pairs. We realize this is still not perfect though, and be sure we're working on some other ideas to improve language selection.
As for selection of text, on the input side, it is a plain vanilla text area, so it shouldn't be any harder to select text there than anywhere else. On the translation side, we're aware of a few was text selection can be troublesome and we're fixing those soon. Thanks again for the feedback. Best, Josh Estelle Senior Software Engineer Google Translate On Feb 14, 12:19 pm, милые барышни и достойные юноши прилежные студенты wrote: > First of all I would like to say that I am a professional translator > and quite often I use online dictionaries. I consider it being a > convinient way of translating words from one language to another. > However Google translate is absolutely inconvinient from the > ergonomical point of view. The thing is that I normaly use 2 or three > languages and translate from one to another. Thus I don't need the > whole list of supported languages to come out when I need to switch > between the languages. I only loose my time seeking the one I need. It > makes me feel frustrated every time I use it. Why not to make > preferences so that Google could remember your choice. It could have > been a particular preset for three languages. For instance German, > English, Spanish and Russian. > > One more problem is that text fields are quite inconvinient. I got > accustomed to Microsoft Word and its selection function. You don't > need to be super accurate to select a piece of a text. But in Google > everything is vice versa. You must be super accurate to select the > text otherwise it would select anything but not text itself. > > I plan to continue my critical remarks about this service... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
