
Griezmann laughed and began to respond in Spanish while the French team’s spokesman said “next question” and urged the player to remain silent. Some journalists have also used the tool to circumvent language restrictions imposed in press encounters with certain teams.Īt a press conference with French star Antoine Griezmann, a Spanish journalist wanted to ask him about his future at his club, Atlético de Madrid.īut French press officers said the questions would only be taken in French, a language the journalist did not speak. In the end he managed to get around the restriction by having the Google translator reproduce his question in French. “One of our friends wanted to tell a woman in a store that Russian women were very beautiful,” said Colombian Juan David Londono in Samara, where Colombia beat Senegal 1-0 in the group stage. “But when Google translated it, it said: ‘older women are very beautiful.'” Type the English into Google Translate and translate to. “We were in a gift shop and the lady had her computer turned on, so she could write her words in Russian and then ask me to look at her screen to read the English translation,” said Trisha, a Filipino tourist visiting Kazan.Īlthough the application can sometimes produce inaccuracies or rare translations , fans say it has significantly improved their experience during the World Cup. Microsoft Translator live is a free translation and transcription service that lets you have translated conversations across multiple devices on iOS. This will have the benefit of being originally written in Russian rather than translated from English.
