Has anyone come in contact with

[ceceliavo]

someone who doesn’t speak your language at all? I took a bit of french in high school and someone has messaged me speaking in french so I message back saying I do not speak french and he replied in french…so I decided to use a translator (online) to try and communicate…good idea? I would hate to not be able to help someone with a project.

[shawnecannon]

can’t say I have… Most sites nowadays have translations built in

[ceceliavo]

Except this one? lol

[ozzieuk]

Bad idea… online translators do not work very well at all, such as English to German translation, it looses all meaning, my best friends wife is German and I ran her by a Google translate of a perfectly plausible sentence written in English and translated by Google to German. Her reaction was laughter, why I ask? Her reply: it makes no sense almost like a child has written it?!

[ceceliavo]

Reply to @ozzieuk: I understand that’s what I was afraid of! BUT it seems to be going okay for the moment. While what he says it’s as straight forward because of the translation I get it and I’m sure he is getting some idea of what I’m saying.

[ceceliavo]

Reply to @madmoo: Sounds like it worked out well! I was just like oh no! How will I talk to youuu lol

[lparziale]

Nope, never had a foreign language order. Google translate is rather handy though.