| The process of globalization has started several decades ago. It has brought to a significant increase in political and economic contacts between various countries, as well as to the development of tourism. The rapidly developing process of globalization is underlined by all-round language penetration and it has told positively upon various spheres of our life. The English language is traditionally regarded as the international language. English is spoken with different level of proficiency by a great number of people all over the world. Almost every person in the world has at least a common idea of the English language. Meanwhile, other languages are less widespread. If people are faced with the text or document created in an unknown language they're looking for a way to conceive what it's saying.
Translation process is a procedure of text interpretation from one language to another one. Conventionally it is accepted that there is 2 main ways of translation: automatic and manual translation processes. Manual translation is the earliest kind of translation process and it means just translating the text sentence by sentence by a person. At the same time automatic translation process is an invention of the modern technological progress and it has become widespread not so long ago. Automatic translation of the text may be accomplished with the help of special PC programs, like Prompt, or it can also be accomplished on-line at the web sites dedicated to language translation.
We have already automated a great number of procedure. But nevertheless, what concerns automatic translation process there are some minuses. Taking into account that there are a lot of typical fixed expressions in every foreign language, it isn't possible to foresee all the probable situations of translation. That's why the software uses the most common meaning of the word, and it is not all the time the best variant for translation. In addition, from time to time the program translates the turn of speech word by word, and as a result the sense of the phrase is changed. The most evident plus of the automatic translation is promptness. But nevertheless, important documents you'd better translate manually or consult special translation companies. |
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