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Why do we need people to translate when we have machine translation?

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Linguamania
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Some people ask why they should bother learning a language when there are online apps and websites which can translate quickly and accurately.
In this episode of LinguaMania, Matthew Reynolds and Eleni Philippou argue that translation is so much more than just changing words from one language into another. Translation is creative, it's personal, and it can help build communities.

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Series
Linguamania
People
Matthew Reynolds
Eleni Philippou
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Adriana X Jacobs
Kate Clanchy
Mukahang Limbu
Keywords
translation
language
creativity
poetry
translators
literature
Jane Eyre
Creative Multilingualism
Prismatic Translation
Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages
Date Added: 01/05/2020
Duration: 00:19:31

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