martes, 10 de mayo de 2011

Google launches Latin translation tool

Key
Question 1
a) True Google Translate, a service that can instantly translate entire web pages or chunks of text in to another language,
b) False Google Translate supports more than 50 languages, including minority languages such as Welsh and Haitian Creole,
c) False In a blog post, written entirely in Latin, Jakob Uszkoreit, a senior engineer at Google,
d) False Google has also added a Latin text-to-speech function, too, to help people with their pronunciation.
Question 2
a) A considerable number of people around the planet study Latin and more than 1000,000 Americans sit the National Latin Exam annually.
b) Latin texts are rarely written these days, meaning that translations already exist and they can be fed into Google Translate to create the programme.
Question 3
a) please/to please
b) a wealth
c) crucially
Question 4
a) The National Latin Exam is taken by over 100,000 American students every year and Latin is learnt by many more all over the world.
b) I asked James what lessons he had had that morning.
c) People want to read the many important texts that/which were written in Latin.

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