Wednesday, July 14, 2010

#Google #translate use at #Wikimania

At the dorm where I slept, a nice Polish lady manned the reception. She was nice and she spoke Polish. The Wikimanians did not. So communication was hard until.. until one had the great idea to use translate for communication.

It eased a lot of nerves most importantly of the lady who now could get most of her message out. She wanted to communicate and we wanted to understand, translate provided the interface.
Thanks,
       GerardM

3 comments:

patcito said...

And what was her message??

GerardM said...

There was not one question or message; she used Google translate all the time for every situation where more was needed then handing over the door key.
Thanks,
GerardM

Amir said...

I was just about to write a post about it from a different perspective:

http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/swap-languages/