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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 08/06/2024 à 15:35, Peter Moylan a écrit :   
   > On 04/06/24 09:01, HenHanna wrote:   
   >>   
   >> If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his   
   >> head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his   
   >> heart.   
   >   
   > At various times I have been in places where my command of the local   
   > language was somewhere between zero and negligible. That must happen to   
   > anyone who has done a bit of travelling. How does one deal with this? [...]   
      
   We've toyed with a translation app, which can handle speech and text   
   (via the device's camera, for instance), and Mme Hibou successfully used   
   it once with an actual foreigner, but we've no greater experience of it:   
      
      
      
   This could be used directly, or might be a way of translating and   
   rehearsing key phrases before one walks up to the counter at the station   
   etc.. But would it know not to ask for a second-class ticket in Britain   
   (which request does not result in a ticket, but a ticking off for not   
   calling it 'standard class')?   
      
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