| The globalization process has begun a few decades ago. It has led to a significant increase in governmental and economic contacts between different states, as well as to the tourism development. The quickly developing process of globalization is marked by all-round language penetration and it has told positively upon various spheres of our living. English is conventionally regarded as the international language. The English language is spoken with different level of proficiency by a great number of people throughout the world. Almost any person throughout the world has at least a common notion of English. Meanwhile, other foreign languages are less popular. If people face with the text or document created in an unknown language they are searching for a way to understand what it is saying.
Translation is a procedure of interpreting text created in one language into another one. Traditionally it's considered that there is two major ways of translation: automatic and manual translation. Manual translation process is the earliest kind of translation process and it means simple translation of the text or document phrase by phrase by a person. Meanwhile, automatic translation process is an invention of the modern technical advance and it has become widespread not too much time ago. Automatic translation can be done with the use of specialized PC programs, like Prompt, or it can also be accomplished online at the sites specialized in language translation.
We have already automated numerous processes. But nevertheless, in relation to automatic translation process there are certain disadvantages. Taking into consideration that there are thousands of peculiar fixed expressions in every foreign language, it is not possible to envisage all the future cases with translation. That's the reason why the program uses the most frequently used meaning of the word, and it isn't all the time the most appropriate variant for translation. What's more, from time to time the program translates the turn of speech word by word, and as a consequence the sense of the phrase is changed. The most obvious plus of the automatic translation process is speed. But still, essential documents you'd better translate manually or address to special translation firms. |
