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Perhaps the weirdest Google Translate quirk yet involves the Vietnamese alphabet. And typing every single letter in order apparently means something too For example, when he repeatedly entered two characters (pronounced e tsu), Google gave him the following work of art: Linguist Ben Zimmer noticed that other sets of Japanese characters, when repeated over and over, yield strangely poetic results. Things go completely off the rails when he gets back translations like "Transportation Eastern maple Egg bag," "Delicaceness of deep-sea squeeze trees," and for good measure, " DECEARING EGUEEGEGUGE deep-sea EEGEGEGYE EGGTAG." Sometimes Google is strangely poetic

This latest update also introduces handwriting-input support for Czech, Welsh, Slovak, Croatian, Lithuanian, Icelandic, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Slovenian, and Afrikaans, Jiang added.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. By combining characters, more words can be created. each character has its own meaning and corresponds to a word. “Currently, the text you select with camera-input must be horizontal, but vertical-text support is on its way.” Kanji (), one of the three scripts used in the Japanese language, are Chinese characters, which were first introduced to Japan in the 5th century via the Korean peninsula.

“It’s almost as if you could read Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all along. “Just tap the camera icon, snap a picture of the text, and brush your finger over the part you want translated,” Jiang wrote. “It’s hard enough trying to figure out what something says in a foreign language, but with some languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it can be trickier because you very well might not know how to enter those foreign characters into your device for Google Translate,” Mingi Jiang, associate product manager, wrote on the Google Translate blog.īy introducing camera-input support, Google Translate aims to make it easier to enter foreign characters into the platform. Google Translate users looking to translate Chinese, Japanese and Korean can now do so by taking a photo of the text and swiping their finger over the portion of the text they want translated with the latest update to Google Translate for Android (versions 2.3 and higher).