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• Training Google Translate to work with Sorani Kurdish required extensive volunteer work, coordinated by a man named Bokan Jaff. • Google Translate needs extensive human assistance from native speakers to learn new languages, particularly those with few living speakers. • Jaff’s work was done without pay, out of a desire to make the language more available. When Google learned to speak Sorani Kurdish, the company announced it without much fanfare. The Translate team shared the news in In the case of Sorani Kurdish, much of that work came down to one person: a 31-year-old from Halabja named Bokan Hassan, or Bokan Jaff. A soft-spoken man, he graduated from the University of Sulaimani in 2014 with a degree in English. But he struggled to find work after graduation, which led him to a series of piecemeal translation jobs. Neighbors would often come to his house for translation help, noticing that their own language was not included in most automated translation platforms. “Sometimes they said, ‘Why Persian language? Why Arabic language? Why English language? Why French? Why Spanish?’” Jaff told Rest of World, speaking from a library in his hometown. “‘All of them can be translated … why Kurdish Sorani is not?’” “I didn’t have a response for them. That’s why I tried to work,” he said. His home city of Halabja, located near the Iranian border with Iraq, is the site of one of the world’s most For years, Jaff tried to find ways to get in touch with Google to advocate for Sorani t...

Translate lets you quickly and easily translate your voice and text between any combination of 11 languages. Designed to be the best and easiest-to-use app for translating phrases, conversations, and even the text around you. Translate combines high-quality translations with an intuitive design, so that translating is quick and easy. Features • Conversations - In the Conversation tab, tap the single microphone button to speak, and automatic language detection will transcribe what you say in chat bubbles on the correct side of the conversation. • On-device mode - Enable a fully offline experience in Translate and for downloaded languages. Keep your translations private without needing to turn off your internet connection. • Voice translation - Translate your voice from one language to another. The app detects which of the two selected languages you’re speaking and provides the translated text and audio in the other language. • Text translation - Text translation is fast, simple, and intuitive. All supported languages include their keyboards so you don’t have to download or manually switch between them. • Translate camera - Translate text around you using the camera view. Pause the view to get translations overlaid on text in a photo and zoom in to get a closer look, or translate text in photos from your Photos library. • Auto Translate - Translate speech without tapping the microphone button in a conversation. Auto Translate automatically detects when you s...

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English definitions Choose from corpus-informed dictionaries for English language learners at all levels. They’re ideal for anyone preparing for Cambridge English exams and IELTS. The English dictionary includes the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, and the Cambridge Business English Dictionary. The Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary is perfect for intermediate learners. Bilingual Dictionaries • English–Dutch Dutch–English • English–French French–English • English–German German–English • English–Indonesian Indonesian–English • English–Italian Italian–English • English–Japanese Japanese–English • English–Norwegian Norwegian–English • English–Polish Polish–English • English–Portuguese Portuguese–English • English–Spanish Spanish–English