My sister Lena’s boyfriend Dominic has French parents who he says don’t speak any English at all. Dominic could just translate for them, but if our parents our meeting his, is there a more convenient way or will he just have to translate all the time?
Like, what if his parents just want to communicate with ours without Dominic or Lena? Do they just use the voice to translated text?
I would just use an app to translate. Being the polyglot doing the translations all the time is so annoying, speaking from experiance.
Google Live Translate would turn a voice into text, translate, then text-to-audio the results.
The polyglot should only speak up if the translations is wrong, otherwise, just let an app does its thing. That’s what I would do.
Privacy-wise, probably not that optimal, since you know… internet mass surveillance. But at least you’ll understand each other.
Use basic words, don’t use fancy vocabulary. Easier to get translated. No idioms, no metaphors just the basic words.
Btw: if one of you have a Samsung Phone, there is a “AI-Assisted” live-translation feature that should make the translations better and more accurate, supposedly.
If you have an iPhone, it has a built in translation app too, that does voice to voice with written summaries.
That’s good advice! Thank you!