The Best No-Worries Translation Apps for Overseas Travel

 The Best No-Worries Translation Apps for Overseas Travel

The era of phrase-book is no doubt has passed as these days astute travellers are now swinging to an assortment of best in class smartphones that do not only support but also can provide their language translation needs. In this article, we will be catching a look into some of the useful language translation applications that could come in handy when you are stuck with understanding languages other than your mother tongue or when you travel to places other than your home zone.

GOOGLE TRANSLATOR

A vast majority of folks out there know Google translator too well, it’s a free application. It has the potential of translating up to sixty-four different languages couple with individual words and difficult phrases, and perfectly making it human readable. However, as we understand that nothing exciting is ever absolutely one-sided, this application would not be operable without the internet service. So, here is the deal, whenever you travel out of your home zone you can either purchase the foreign SIM card on arrival or better still look for a wireless service around you there. Also, there is something more intriguing about this application. By tapping just a single action button dedicated to the Google translator on your smartphone, you can do an instant translation. (Download: iOS, Android)

DUOLINGO

Duolingo is undoubtedly one of the prominent applications out there that provide language education service to the people. This application couldn’t have been better when you have it a long time before you travel to a foreign land. Why you need to do this is because Duolingo has all sorts of word games which can be change to any language by the user at any time. So, the bottom line is that this application will practically teach you the language of your choice making use of the word game. However, if users can put all their attentions to it, before long, they will start experiencing improvement in the newly chosen language. Moreover, the only shortcoming is that this application only has a few languages, but is very much perfect when it’s used to learn Romance language words and phrases. (Download: iOS, Android)

 

SPEAK AND TRANSLATE

We can’t get to meet with people with the same language as ours all the time as sometimes we can have some events which might come up and indispensably connecting us with folks with entirely different languages. Maybe you have found yourself in situations such as this; I will like to introduce to you a free phone application that doesn’t only help solve live voice translation but also text translations. All you just need to do to use this fantastic application is to select two languages you will be conversing with, and then you would have to click on your language flag before speaking. However, when this is done, the application will translate and say the word(s) aloud in the second language. Apparently, the other party will need to respond, to do this they need to tap the flag of their country and speak. Speak and Translate will do the translation for you and this exchange tradition goes on as long as the conversation goes. Besides, this application automatically detects your language as it uses your location to do this. Speak and Translate shortcoming is that it is only available on iOS platform; nonetheless, we should be expecting it on other smartphone platforms most especially on Android. (Download: iOS)