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I don't get it. They say they use a dictionary, and they say it works without an Internet connection. How can both things be true? I'm pretty sure there's not,

by Uhhrrr 11y ago

I don't get it. They say they use a dictionary, and they say it works without an Internet connection. How can both things be true? I'm pretty sure there's not, say, a Quechua dictionary on my phone.

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mattmanser 11y ago
It doesn't come with all the languages, you have to download them.
- bduerst 11y ago
  I think it's Android only that you can download the language packs, FYI. The language packs + offline maps are super helpful when travelling abroad.
- rndn 11y ago
  You can download the language packs on Android and iOS, and each one is about 4 MB in size.
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ori_b 11y ago
Are you sure? On my desktop, the english dictionary is ~1 megabyte uncompressed, and compresses to ~250k with gzip. The download for Google Translate is somewhere around 30 megabytes.
josu 11y ago
You have to download them beforehand, and offline translating is limited to just a few languages.