I occasionally use the Google Translate site to translate various phrases/ sentences from English to 19 other languages. I find the Google Translate site very useful for this purpose.
I would like to suggest that the team considers a 'round trip' translation interface, by which I mean the main screen is split into 2 distinct panels, with the original phrase & associated translation [e.g. English > French] shown on top and the reverse [French > English] shown in the second panel beneath. In the second panel, the input phrase would be the output translation taken from the top panel. The idea of this is that a user could then see at a glance how changes to the original input phrase (in my example, that's the English phrase in the top panel) improve the quality of the translation. This can be useful when you are trying to refine a rough translation by re-wording the original (English) phrase in order to improve the understandability of the translated version. At present, I use 2 distinct tabs and cut/paste the initial translation to the second tab to see what the re-translation is like- it would be very useful if I could simply click a button to switch this feature on as required! Many thanks to all the team involved. -- 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.
