English to Spanish app for phone
I checked the internet for language translator app's for the smart phones and the androids and found a number off them. Most people today have one of these phones and travel to a different language...
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Good to know that Google Translation works offline. Apparently, with some limitations i.e. fewer choices when offline. If it works offline at all - recent reviews noted that it doesn't.
I never installed it, and don't think I will. With a proper system it's not that difficult to learn basics tenses, verb conjugations and a few hundred words. Took me about 2 years at a very leisurely pace, I think less than 150 hours spent in total. For when I'm short of words, I'm using a free dictionary app - DicDroid, it provides words and common short phrases.
DicDroid is a dictionary, not a translator. I would not rely on a Google Translator for anything beyond basics, because, as any translator app, it can and will screw up on the basic level already. Like translating "Did you see it?" as Simple Past "lo viste?", while in Spanish they more often use Present Perfect "lo has visto". Or, when you dial "Have you seen it?", it gives "la has visto" - almost correct, except for La. Spanish language is "muy macho", things are always assumed to be masculine unless otherwise specified.
I never installed it, and don't think I will. With a proper system it's not that difficult to learn basics tenses, verb conjugations and a few hundred words. Took me about 2 years at a very leisurely pace, I think less than 150 hours spent in total. For when I'm short of words, I'm using a free dictionary app - DicDroid, it provides words and common short phrases.
DicDroid is a dictionary, not a translator. I would not rely on a Google Translator for anything beyond basics, because, as any translator app, it can and will screw up on the basic level already. Like translating "Did you see it?" as Simple Past "lo viste?", while in Spanish they more often use Present Perfect "lo has visto". Or, when you dial "Have you seen it?", it gives "la has visto" - almost correct, except for La. Spanish language is "muy macho", things are always assumed to be masculine unless otherwise specified.
