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Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the qual

Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?

Agentlien 4y ago
I tried it out in both Dutch (fluent) and Swedish (native speaker). The Dutch seemed fine. In Swedish most of it was perfectly ordinary Swedish except one response seemed like awkwardly translated English.
Hadjimina 4y ago
Yeah it's highly dependent on the language right now
Quazel_S 4y ago
Yes exactly. Currently there are slight quality differences depending on the chosen language. We're working on improvements in all languages.
- LouisFWinter 4y ago
  What translator do you use? If it's any other than DeepL, you're making a mistake!
melvinmelih 4y ago
Dutch is a sister language of English so I’m not surprised
- englishrookie 4y ago
  Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
  - jhardy54 4y ago
    Translation or transliteration?
    - englishrookie 4y ago
      No transliteration: Dutch uses the Latin alphabet.
      - grumpopotamus 4y ago
        Maybe word for word translation is the phrase we're looking for? As opposed to an idiomatic translation. Transliteration means phonetically translating from one alphabet to another, in order to p reserve the pronunciation.
        jhardy54 4y ago
        Exactly this — I thought that’s what “transliteration” meant, but I was wrong. I appreciate the pointer.
      - jhardy54 4y ago
        Thanks, I didn’t realize that I’ve been using that word incorrectly. I should have said ‘literal translation’. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation
  - aix1 4y ago
    > Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.) Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin). Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other: https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/linguist-family-tree.jpg https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...

Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?

Agentlien 4y ago

I tried it out in both Dutch (fluent) and Swedish (native speaker). The Dutch seemed fine. In Swedish most of it was perfectly ordinary Swedish except one response seemed like awkwardly translated English.

Hadjimina 4y ago

Yeah it's highly dependent on the language right now

Quazel_S 4y ago

Yes exactly. Currently there are slight quality differences depending on the chosen language. We're working on improvements in all languages.

LouisFWinter 4y ago
What translator do you use? If it's any other than DeepL, you're making a mistake!

melvinmelih 4y ago

Dutch is a sister language of English so I’m not surprised

englishrookie 4y ago
Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
- jhardy54 4y ago
  Translation or transliteration?
  - englishrookie 4y ago
    No transliteration: Dutch uses the Latin alphabet.
    - grumpopotamus 4y ago
      Maybe word for word translation is the phrase we're looking for? As opposed to an idiomatic translation. Transliteration means phonetically translating from one alphabet to another, in order to p reserve the pronunciation.
      - jhardy54 4y ago
        Exactly this — I thought that’s what “transliteration” meant, but I was wrong. I appreciate the pointer.
    - jhardy54 4y ago
      Thanks, I didn’t realize that I’ve been using that word incorrectly. I should have said ‘literal translation’. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation
- aix1 4y ago
  > Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.) Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin). Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other: https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/linguist-family-tree.jpg https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...